Package Servers

B Patterson · April 13, 2006, 06:18:18 PM

Can we remove the non-usable package servers? right now, only the SMF hosted server gives any meaningful response. [Unknown]'s package server is down, Grudge took his down, and the other one isn't even up yet.

I'm glad that we will have more than one repository, but can we please remove the "bad" ones so that we see only working ones? I'm sure this is just a minor code edit.

H · April 13, 2006, 07:57:11 PM

I believe the latest SMF 1.1 does remove these.

* huwnet goes to check

B Patterson · April 13, 2006, 08:31:32 PM

I'm using 1.1 RC2 and they're still there....

H · April 13, 2006, 08:33:35 PM

Indeed they are, I looked in the place they used to be.

I will flag this as an item that needs attention

Dannii · April 13, 2006, 09:01:18 PM

You can remove non-working package servers from within the package manager. Click "[ Delete ]"

B Patterson · April 13, 2006, 10:41:11 PM

No, not non-working packages, Non-working package servers. The list of package servers that's populated through whatever JS function connects to here to find them. I know I can click "delete" to remove the packages, it's the servers that are there that shouldn't be.

Dannii · April 13, 2006, 10:42:10 PM

Package servers also have a delete button.

B Patterson · April 13, 2006, 11:17:28 PM

Ah yes, but shouldn't SMF do this automatically?

Dannii · April 13, 2006, 11:19:23 PM

No. nothing should be automatically deleted.

B Patterson · April 13, 2006, 11:21:39 PM

Well, let me rephrase.

Shouldn't SMF automatically check to see if the server is up and if it's not, hide it from the list of available download servers? This would seem to make more sense to me as then there'd be no confusion as to which works and which doesn't.

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