From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13945 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2014 18:12:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13932 invoked by uid 89); 21 Apr 2014 18:12:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtpout19.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk Received: from smtpout19.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (HELO smtpout19.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk) (65.20.0.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:12:01 +0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A090201.53555F6F.0011,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/97,refid=2.7.2:2014.4.20.4818:17:7.944,ip=,rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NO_NAME, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, URI_ENDS_IN_HTML, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __FORWARDED_MSG, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1200_1299, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Received: from [192.168.1.72] (86.164.67.104) by smtpout19.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (8.6.100.99.10223) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 534DAD88005AB171 for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: <53555F7C.7070708@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:12:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting. References: <1398078987-5116-1-git-send-email-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <1398078987-5116-4-git-send-email-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <20140421141028.GD661@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20140421141028.GD661@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 On 21/04/2014 15:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> If I add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/ to >> setup's mirror list, using the GUI or --site option, I get two indistinguishable >> entries named http://mirrors.kernel.org in the mirror list box. >> >> So, to make the site chooser list entries more distinguishable, add the last >> element of the URL path to the site chooser, if it exists and isn't 'cygwin' (or >> some other alternatives used by current mirrors) >> >> As Corinna pointed out in Nov 2010, there is still a corner case of URLs which >> share protocol, hostname and the last element of the URL path being >> indistinguishable. Additionally, it will need updating for any new mirrors which >> don't use one of the expected strings for the last path element in the URL. > > I'd actually be ok with just displaying the whole URL even if it ends with Cygwin. > Is there a reason not to do that? Last time this was discussed [1], I think you felt that the current site list and dialog box is too small to display the full URL usefully. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-11/msg00134.html