Re: ["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>] Re: recent changelogs, FYI
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:49:50PM +0100, Marcel Harkema wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 16:14 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > Marcel, aren't you working with Shaleh?! Why the redundancy and
> > wasted duplicate effort?
>
> Because I am working on my thesis. In my tree net-fetch is integrated
> into dbootstrap now, but I haven't tested the integration yet. I've
> changed parts of extract_*.c and choose_medium.c. I will not commit
> untested code to the boot-floppies CVS. Net-fetch is a generic install
> method that is able to use http, ftp, snarf, etc. to fetch files. I only
> implemented a http module (http/1.1 client incl. proxy support) to go with
> net-fetch. I have no interest in ftp or snarf, but support for them can
> be added easily (I defined interfaces between net-fetch and its modules).
> Maybe I can test it during the weekend in between family visits.
Why aren't we using apt's already created, already debugged, already with
a well defined generic interface, "methods" for ftp, http, etc? Or is
a slimmed down libstdc++ and libapt-pkg too large for the disks?
-- Nathaniel
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