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

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

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.

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

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.