Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A better FTP client with Gentoo enhancements

Philippe Namias wrote:
>
> On Thursday 22 March 2001 16:44, you wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0600, Bryce Porter wrote:
> > > Ouch... Wget is very lightweight and does an excellent job of what it is
> > > used for. It is small and simple, and easy to understand. Why fix what
> > > isn't broken, anyway?
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea to use the same ftp program as FreeBSD,
> > because their ftp program is great, and it will be another nice thing for
> > FreeBSD users who need to use Linux.  It'll make them feel at home.  Also,
> > the wget output *is* quite ugly.
>
> The ftp program considering the fecth function as been quite a discussion for
> a long time along FreeBSD developper and i think they still want to change it
> as there are some bug in it  (i will try to find out more on mailing list).
> OpenBSD used a different way so...
> Why i disklike using this ftp or wget is the totally absence of
> "intellingence of them". I remember spendig more time downloading stuff under
> FreeBSD than compiling (when leaving fetch do stuff alone).
> That why for my part i recommend Prozilla (Achim wrote an e-mail about this
> one).
> This one is really forward (multiple donwload at the same time, searching the
> fastest mirror near you, resume...)
>
> Go to
> http://www.lintux.cx/~kalum/prozilla.html for more details
>
> I made a change in the make.default where i include a line for prozilla so
> just uncomment it and comment the wget line. And try it.
>
> And concerning the ouput, i think each person have an esthetic point of view
> on this.
> So i you don't like, just add some command line argument to change it or hack
> it (this kind of stuff are generally quiet easy to hack so you can ge wget
> look like ftp from FreeBSD/NetBSD).
>

Philipe, did you fix the fetch function already?

I have an idea how we can make it more flexible for different download
apps.

We can add a script to each download app (example:
/usr/lib/portage/fetch/wget.fetch ). This script holds a wrapper
function for the fetch programm ,
a function to detect if we have already partial downloaded and a
function to remove partial downloaded files.

Then we can replace the FETCHCOMMAND variable with a var called FETCH.
If you set this for example to "wget",
ebuild sources /usr/lib/portage/fetch/wget.fetch and we can use the
functions in ebuild fetch function.

achim~ 


> >
> > If the new ftp program works well (haven't tested it yet), I'm willing to
> > make it the default download app for the above-stated reasons
> >
> > Best Regards,
>
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