Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:25:01AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> You're right, Zafer, the website shows some room for improvement.

I agree. If we had (internally, as a .json for example) a list of 
main directories on mirrors, we could supply two simple things that
would IMHO help a lot:

 1) A quick link to an amd64 install CD iso image.
    This would hit the main ftp server in the dumb case, but the link
    could be replaced with javascript tricks, either random or with
    very simple "geoip" like rules. I bet we don't cause too few load
    for the efficiency of the distribution sheme to actually matter.

 2) A form where you can select (with help links) a few basic things
    and while you select options, the target link in the big "download
    now" button is replaced according to your selection.
    Options would be: release you want (this may exclude -current),
    architecture, mirror to use, install method, ...


The "configuration data" needs to be updated with every release and mirror
information needs maintenance as well, but I suppose mirrors rarely shift
stuff around (but just go away or are created new).

Martin