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Re: Mirrors list options


Roth, Kevin P. wrote:
> I agree with those who've suggested this should NOT automatically
> happen every time you run setup. At most, once when we first run it,
> and again any time we click a "reping" button.

Yes. Maybe we shouldn't call it a ping? "Speed test" might be better. The
speed test could, in fact, be downloading setup.ini.

> Also - as long as we're sharing... When can we have a setup.exe
> "update-mode" wizard? After running through all 5 screens of
> questions the first time, I shouldn't have to hit next on each of
> those screens every time I update. Can we have the first screen just
> summarize the saved choices from before, and ask whether I want to
> update based on those choices, or whether I need to re-answer all the
> Q's.

Tapping Return 5 times has always sufficed for me.

Patches, however, gratefully accepted.

Max.


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