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

[Philippe Namias]

On Thursday 22 March 2001 17:18, you wrote:
> 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 been implementing in bash but now i am reimplementig it in Python (as 
Daniel told that he rewrite ebuild in python ). So give me till the end of 
the week and on monday i send you my work (i am quite new to python so it 
take me time sorry) 

>
> 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.

Good idea. I will go with it. And also i would like to implement a background 
download if there is multiple depend , example :
kdevelop need cvs.
i fetch cvs then doing the  compile/install but as the time i began download 
kdevelop 

What do you think?

>
> 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.

So we implement a function for each "downloader"?

prozilla.fetch
wget.fetch
bsdftp.fetch

>
> 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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