ftp, dbootstrap, busybox wget, status bar
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
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