From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 11:21:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F4E14E07 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA29796; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA22720; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:05:44 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA12650; Fri, 24 Sep 99 11:19:09 PDT Message-Id: <37EBC09D.9EE2B2D6@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:19:09 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > > BTW, I'm now utilizing ftpio(3) instead of my own kludge, I'll probably > send a new message to -hackers when the new version is ready. (I'm going > to spend a few days somewhere else.) fetch(3) is a better choice because it allows http downloads too. Passing a URL is now the "one true way" to specify an internet resource. Boy, we're having fun asking you to rewrite your program. It's good training for you, though, this is what it's like to be a programmer in "The Real World". ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message