On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Joel Kulesza wrote: > > What regions were those (I'm mostly curious)? US(NM) was one I know of, > > validated through the result provided. > > Asia/South America >
Thanks; sorry I missed when you said this previously. > > What I'm attempting to get at is: do we need another > > download mechanism or do we need to refine/emphasize the message to > > downloaders that alternatives exist and they may in in fact be faster > than > > the default? > > We added sentence to both web and announce file. I do not think we should > do > more when it comes to "emphasizing". > Understood. I suppose one aspect of "emphasizing" that was veto'd was to include a note that the main download site is based in France. This seems like an odd omission to me because all mirrors have their location listed and because the main download site's URL doesn't give an indication of location naturally (e.g., not a .fr or similar TLD). As a "dumb American" I natively assumed that the main site was based somewhere in the continental US having had no clue to the contrary. Incidentally, it's surprising to me that the UCSD mirror often gave higher speeds to poll respondents than the main site. I wonder if that was a fluke or whether it might make a more suitable "primary" site (or maybe that doesn't work because of an agreement made with the host?). > > Along those lines, rather than spinning up a torrent, has > > anyone investigated what it would take to get an auto-negotiating mirror > > setup such that when someone downloads from the default site they are > > automagically redirected to the fastest available mirror? > > Actually I spent some time to look on alternatives before proceeding with > torrent way and it's painful. We could rely on 3rd parties, like > sourceforge, > but their reputation with adding adware to download pages in history is > not exactly stellar and it would still need additional maintence work. > I agree about SourceForge; I too am not a fan of their site and business practices. Partially I was wondering what the backend of LyX's website is; is it capable of dynamic hosting? Could some simple PHP/ASPX/etc. code be made to perform the auto-negotiation for the then-fastest mirror to then generate a link on the page that gets served...? > To sum up, I reached my threshold of time I was willing to spend on > the distributing issue and after dribbling with several variants > this (kind of fake) torrent showed up as best; wrote the script and > offered one-command solution without additional maintenance work. > Whether maintainers want to use it or no it's up them... Understood; my thanks for (a) your concern and (b) your work to improve on what's there!
