From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 13: 0:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from stlaurent.mindstep.com (stlaurent.mindstep.com [216.18.127.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040C37B405 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@netzuno.com) Received: from grouch (grouch.local.mindstep.com [192.168.0.10]) by zunobox.local.mindstep.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 51DF8D923 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:01:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: Subject: Re: libcurl in the base distribution of FreeBSD Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:00:41 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FYI, curl is already available as a port: /usr/ports/ftp/curl even if it's > not part of the base system. Yes I fully realize that. My point though is that libfetch to me seems a bit limited in its feature set, while there exists other tools that implement what libfetch does and much more. Using curl/libcurl from the base system would allow many part of the system to quickly gain functionality: - the ports system could use HTTPS/FTPS to grab port distributions - same for sysinstall - same for fetch implementing SSL support in libfetch does not seem to be a good idea IMO and will not be an easy task anyway. The effort required to include libcurl in the base system is small in comparison and will provide *almost free* improvements over time... Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message