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

[Philippe Namias]

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).

>
> 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,