[Development] List of available Qt mirrors

[Ch'Gans]

On 17 May 2017 at 01:36, Li Xu <photonlili at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I got 4 mirrors from the link from China mainland,
>
> http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/qtproject/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/root/qt/Updates.xml
> (cn, prio 100)
> http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/qt/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/root/qt/Updates.xml
> (cn, prio 100)
> http://mirror.bit.edu.cn/qtproject/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/root/qt/Updates.xml
> (cn, prio 100)
> http://mirrors.neusoft.edu.cn/qt/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/root/qt/Updates.xml
> (cn, prio 100)

>From New Zealand, I do not see the Chinese servers. I get 2 Japanese
one at the top of the list, and then some European ones followed by
Brazil and Canada.

Chris

>
> I don't think they are vanished from list, mb they were just not there when
> you were not located in China.
>
> Regards,
> Li
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A user from China has reported that the Chinese mirrors are no longer
>> visible to him [1]. I also don't see any when I visit
>> http://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/root/qt/Updates.xml.mirrorlist
>> (from Australia)
>>
>> Now, from my experience (which is a few years old and possibly outdated),
>> the Chinese mirrors tend to perform quite poorly, even for users within
>> China [2]. Nonetheless, I'm still surprised to see that they have vanished
>> from the list; at least one server seems up to date [3].
>>
>> Is this behaviour expected? Has the mirror management system been updated
>> to hide mirrors that don't meet certain performance criteria or something
>> like that?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sze-Howe
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/JKSH/QtSdkRepoChooser/issues/5
>> [2]
>> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2013-December/010336.html
>> [3] http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/qtproject/online/qtsdkrepository/
>>
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