Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:30:52AM CEST:
> > 1) do you have any interest in eliminating the dependency on ncftpput?
>
> Sure.
>
> So perhaps the best outcome would be for gnupload to use ftp itself,
> instead of ncftpput? Ie, this stuff could become a function in
> gnupload?
Sure, that would be a possibility, too. Not sure whether ftp is
universally available, though.
> Failing that, perhaps gnupload could use a variable, e.g.,
> : ${FTPPUT=ncftpput}
> to make it easier to use something else.
>
> - missing basename could be taken care of.
>
> What do you mean? If the result of calling basename is the empty string?
According to the Autoconf manual, some systems don't have a working
basename. I guess we don't need to cater for those here, presumably
very old systems.
Cheers,
Ralf
