Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:12:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@netzuno.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libcurl in the base distribution of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010727131233.A31666@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <HAEIJMBEIPIGEFCFDNDIIEBLCIAA.patrick@netzuno.com>; from patrick@netzuno.com on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:00:41PM -0400 References: <HAEIJMBEIPIGEFCFDNDIIEBLCIAA.patrick@netzuno.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:00:41PM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > 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... FWIW, OpenPackages has adopted curl/libcurl instead of fetch/libfetch for similar reasons. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7YcswXY6L6fI4GtQRArnSAJ0fVYURdlN7R2aFu1B7qI0KesFOdgCg0fSd +/iT674ijeZsruV58K5fZxM= =DnuZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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