[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8333669: [8u] GHA: Dead VS2010 download link

[Zdenek Zambersky]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 08:27:34 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Switches VS2010 download link back to `archive.org`, as currently used link no longer works. ( I currently don't know about better mirror. ) Http download from archive.org is slow, but I have found [they also offer torrent](https://archive.org/details/vs-2010-express-1), which is much faster. So torrent, with fallback to http, is used.
>> 
>> Affects GHA testing only. Fixes windows x86 builds.
>
> Seems fine to me and better than what we currently have.

@jerboaa thanks

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/513#issuecomment-2152252780