Re: git: 43ea95faf2c0 - main - chinese/libpinyin: Switch DB backend and improve port

On 2024-05-20T11:50:07.000+02:00, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:56:12AM +0000, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> 
> >    commit 43ea95faf2c07a72429da7402f5feb74a8d88c02
> >  
> >    chinese/libpinyin: Switch DB backend and improve port
> >  
> >    * Use GitHub as primary download site and Sourceforge as fallback
>  
> Actually, it should be the other way around, SF is usually more
> reliable overall.  GitHub gives me stalled/truncated downloads
> enough times it becomes annoying, while with SF, there's always
> a mirror which would be fast and robust in any part of the world.
> 
> ./danfe

Hi,

If your ISP have peering issues that's unfortunate but we do provide a fallback solution (actually two if you count distcache). While I don't have access to boxes all over the world I do have to a few continents and I can say that GitHub's CDN is by quite a margin faster.

Best regards,
Daniel