From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from [213.11.85.133] (helo=titane.novadeck.net) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14g7gm-0006OA-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:11:52 -0700 Received: from cerberus ([213.11.85.132]) by titane.novadeck.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f2MHAaG08018 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:10:36 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Philippe Namias Organization: Novadeck To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A better FTP client with Gentoo enhancements X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010322084457.E23787@cvs.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20010322084457.E23787@cvs.gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032217155800.04128@cerberus> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: pn@novadeck.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Mar 22 09:12:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:15:58 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 0b457d6a-4f42-408c-aa4e-a42817948d9d X-Archives-Hash: 9bb7f088d1fa963148339074fdf63bb2 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,