After looking through those options, I agree with you that BinDeps.download_cmd is currently the best fit for my requirements for question 1.
On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 9:23:30 AM UTC-6, Tony Kelman wrote: > > Regarding question 1, the most widely tested option is probably > BinDeps.download_cmd. That is similar to Base.download but with an > additional more reliable fallback on Windows to calling PowerShell. You > could also look into LibCURL.jl or Requests.jl, which use BinDeps to ensure > the binary libraries they depend on will be in place. There's a discussion > in an issue, I think in BinDeps, that general file downloading is in need > of a refactoring and consolidation between what's in Base, BinDeps, WinRPM, > and other implementations floating around. The proposal hasn't been acted > on yet though, so it's still a little bit of a mess. > > > On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 3:50:55 AM UTC-8, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> No, please don't shell out to curl on windows. That will be going away, >> it's only present as a side effect of being bundled with git. We don't use >> bundled git any more. > >
