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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:22:23PM +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> 
>>I have been writing a design for binup to become protocol an package 
>>independent.  This document dosn't specify how to build the packages or 
>>how to install the packages.
>>
>>This is the first draft and I would like feedback.
>>
>>With this draft the client is responsible to select the packages on the 
>>server to fetch then install them on it's own.
> 
> 
> IMO, what we need is working code, not more drafts that get
> bikeshedded around for a bit but then never get implemented.
> 
> Kris

I've started writing some code in c to download the packages using
libfetch.  If there are any changes to the draft I will fix them in the
code when I release it.

Andrew