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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting.


On 08/11/2010 05:54, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:54:50PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 06/11/2010 18:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> This is great, please check in.  I suspect that you're just trying a
>>> local mirror or something but if there are actually sites in the mirror
>>> list which are not proper FQDNs, please report them so that they can be
>>> fixed in the mirror database.
>>
>> Yes, you are correct.  There are no sites in the mirror list which aren't
>> FQDNs. I was just fixing what happens when you add 'http://localhost/cygwin/'
>> (or some other locally-known non-FQDN) to the mirror list.
>>
>> Just to be clear, you want me to check in the whole patch, and not just that fix?
> 
> Actually, on reflection, I don't see a great benefit to parsing the UFL.
> Why not just list the whole thing?  What would be more useful to the
> Cygwin project would be to list the other information like country.

As a start, the attached patch removes the URL parsing and just shows the
whole URL in the site chooser.

I think displaying multiple columns of information would require a grid
control of some sort.

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