Re: [Mingw-users] slow mingw-get

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 5 July 2011 13:31, Earnie wrote:
> Keith Marshall wrote:
>>
>> I can explore possibilities for making mingw-get handle time-outs more
>> aggressively, but that isn't going to improve your slow speed issue.  If
>> this is, as you originally intimated, a mirror selection problem, there
>> may be a way to force a preferred selection; (there was at one time, by
>> appending a `&use_mirror=...' qualifier to the URL, but last time I
>> tried that, SF seemed to have disabled it).
>
> It is still used.  If you click on the "direct link" you'll see it used.

Hmm.  It works with the "new" style hierarchical download page URLs.  It
used to work with the old prdownloads "flat" style URLs too; it seems to
no longer work for this, which is unfortunately the URL style required
by mingw-get.

Converting mingw-get to use the hierarchical URL format would be a major
undertaking; don't hold your breath waiting for any such change.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.