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


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:53:15AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 21 19:12, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> 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
>
>The dialog has still a lot of space to the left and right of the URL
>list window.  We could resize it to take the full available space even
>in the smallest dialog size.  I think that would be sufficient most
>of the time.  And the dialog can be resized if it doesn't suffice.

I agree.  I was going to suggest resizing (maybe I did before too).
We'd like to get a new version of setup.exe released soon.  I think
these changes would be nice to have in it.  Any chance you could do
that Jon?

cgf


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