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digitalmars.D - Is it ok now to mirror dmd zip packages for Gentoo?

reply Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:
I'm rewriting the package script for Gentoo and I stumbled
over that old "mirror restriction" forcing downloads from the
Amazon server rather than from Gentoo mirrors.
It's not an issue at all, it would only saves 2 lines of
code. :) So if you (Walter) still want to keep track of the
download statistic just say so. There is also that Russian FTP
mirror now so it looks like it is already hard to keep track.

-- 
Marco
Nov 08 2013
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 11/8/13 1:02 AM, Marco Leise wrote:

 I'm rewriting the package script for Gentoo and I stumbled
 over that old "mirror restriction" forcing downloads from the
 Amazon server rather than from Gentoo mirrors.
 It's not an issue at all, it would only saves 2 lines of
 code. :) So if you (Walter) still want to keep track of the
 download statistic just say so. There is also that Russian FTP
 mirror now so it looks like it is already hard to keep track.


Download statistics are of crucial importance to us.

Andrei
Nov 08 2013
next sibling parent Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 11/8/13, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:

 Download statistics are of crucial importance to us.


Are these statistic publicly displayed somewhere? I'm really
interested in them. I can definitely tell there are new D users around
since they pop up in the #d IRC channel, on stackoverflow, and
D.learn.
Nov 08 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:
Am Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:25:15 -0800
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org>:


 On 11/8/13 1:02 AM, Marco Leise wrote:

 I'm rewriting the package script for Gentoo and I stumbled
 over that old "mirror restriction" forcing downloads from the
 Amazon server rather than from Gentoo mirrors.
 It's not an issue at all, it would only saves 2 lines of
 code. :) So if you (Walter) still want to keep track of the
 download statistic just say so. There is also that Russian FTP
 mirror now so it looks like it is already hard to keep track.


 
 Download statistics are of crucial importance to us.
 
 Andrei


Ok, thanks.

-- 
Marco
Nov 08 2013
prev sibling parent "nazriel" <spam dzfl.pl> writes:
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 16:25:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 11/8/13 1:02 AM, Marco Leise wrote:

 I'm rewriting the package script for Gentoo and I stumbled
 over that old "mirror restriction" forcing downloads from the
 Amazon server rather than from Gentoo mirrors.
 It's not an issue at all, it would only saves 2 lines of
 code. :) So if you (Walter) still want to keep track of the
 download statistic just say so. There is also that Russian FTP
 mirror now so it looks like it is already hard to keep track.


 Download statistics are of crucial importance to us.

 Andrei


Can't we create something like pseudo-load-balancer?

It would allow to keep statistics and use different mirrors.

For example that russian mirror is quite fast compared to DM ftp.

What I propose is:

http://dlang.org/download/dmd.2.064.2/?mirror=russian.ftp
It increments download counter and redirects to mirror.
Nov 09 2013