On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Allan Odgaard > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 Dec 2009, at 14:19, Peng Yu wrote: >> >>> Suppose I want to download the file http://some_website/some_file >>> whenever it is newer than the local file. This needs the specification >>> of the dependency on URLs. I'm wondering if it is possible to do so in >>> gnu make. >> >> URLs don’t have dates. A GET/HEAD request may return a ‘Last-Modified’ >> header and you can do conditional requests using that or the entity tag, but >> these things are beyond make. > > Some programs (e.g. rsync) support various network protocols. It would > be nice that gnu make also support these protocols. Will this > functionality be considered to be added in gnu make in the future?
Will this feature be considered in the future? I recommend to support ftp protocol first, maybe ssh can be supported later. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
