On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:00:41PM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Yes I fully realize that. My point though is that libfetch to me seems a bit
> limited in its feature set, while there exists other tools that implement
> what libfetch does and much more. Using curl/libcurl from the base system
> would allow many part of the system to quickly gain functionality:
>
> - the ports system could use HTTPS/FTPS to grab port distributions
> - same for sysinstall
> - same for fetch
>
>
> implementing SSL support in libfetch does not seem to be a good idea IMO and
> will not be an easy task anyway. The effort required to include libcurl in
> the base system is small in comparison and will provide *almost free*
> improvements over time...
FWIW, OpenPackages has adopted curl/libcurl instead of fetch/libfetch
for similar reasons.
-- Brooks
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