[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A better FTP client with Gentoo enhancements
From:       <drobbins () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2001-03-22 10:18:01
[Download RAW message or body]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:15:19PM +0100, Philippe Namias wrote:

> So we implement a function for each "downloader"?
> 
> prozilla.fetch
> wget.fetch
> bsdftp.fetch

I think Achim's suggestion is excellent.  Each downloader (prozilla,
bsdftp,wget) should install a script into /usr/lib/portage/bin called
{app}.fetch.  It can be written in any language (C,python,bash) as
long as it can be called from the command-line.  It should accept one
or more URLs as arguments.  Do we need any command-line options?

Maybe a --passive option to force a passive ftp session?  Right now
there are ftp servers that are passive only, and others that are active
only.  Maybe we need some new URL types: ftpa:// ftpp:// ?

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]