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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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