ftp, dbootstrap, busybox wget, status bar

[David Kimdon <David_Kimdon@alumni.hmc.edu>]

Hi,

I'm working on adding ftp support to dbootstrap's fetching ability
using busybox wget.  I'm considering using wget for http as well, the
size saved is interesting.

old (does only http):
$ size http-fetch.o 
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4560       0       0    4560    11d0 http-fetch.o

new (supports http and ftp):
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    264       0       0     264     108 http-fetch.o

The remaining issue is user experience.  At the moment busybox wget
isn't configured to give us a status bar (that costs ~2k).  Even if we
add the status bar it will be under a fullscreen_execlog, (black
screen with just the wget output) unless we want to munge wget output
into pretty dbootstrap GUI progress bar etc.

I suggest we enable the wget status bar, use it for http and ftp
fetch, and not worry about GUI'ifying wget's output.

Thoughts?

David