Hi,
> perhaps if this could be embeded in a web page... an applet? that would
> be cool.
> and unless you plan to compile to all archs maybe a shell script
> would be better?
Hmm... I was thinking a smallish, statically-linked C program. I hadn't
thought about multiple architectures (I'm a little Intel-centric...:). I
have access to Intel and PowerPC boxes and could supply binaries for those
archs. I'd GPL this if I wrote it, so could distribute source for other
archs, but that might make the process even more puzzling :).
I was thinking of doing it that way because:
-I suck at shell scripts
-I don't suck quite as much at C.
-I want some practice in C.
-Some of the checks might be hard to do in shell scripts (haven't
thought about this much; I'm sure it would be possible, but probably hard
for someone as lacking in skill as myself :)
> if it based all of it's decisions on files in a
> standard location on the ftp server then it could be updated auto-
> magically.
That would be cool. Good plan.
> equally interesting would be to do a ping of the mirrors and
> download from the closest first.
Cool idea!
Thanks,
dstn.
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