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From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE80EAC8-1E47-45AB-BE5B-E08C9B00E59D@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128672121.20150829211434@yandex.ru>

On Aug 29, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
>> somebody
>> has already written a script (Perl) to determine fastest Cygwin
>> mirror: https://sourceforge.net/p/cygwinmirrortest
> 
>> Perhaps this could become part of the base install?
> 
> No Perl in base.

…but someone sufficiently motivated could rewrite it in C++ and merge that into setup.exe.
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-30  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-28 18:35 Roger Pack
2015-08-28 18:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-28 20:49   ` Jack
2015-08-28 21:47     ` Warren Young
2015-08-29 17:15       ` Philip Daniels
2015-08-29 19:19         ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-30 11:45           ` Warren Young [this message]

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