Chris Bagwell <ch...@cnpbagwell.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote:
> > Currently. sox uses wget(1) to access remote files and streams.
> > What is the developers' opinion about what do do with it
> > (if anything)?
> >
> > The obvious candidates are wget(1), ftp(1), curl(1) and libcurl(3).
> > What would be the pros and cons of each?
> >
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1713308&group_id=10706&atid=360706
> >
> > (I am not sure if there are other entries in the tracker
> > related to this.)
> >
> >         Jan
> >
> >
> Using libcurl is probably not going to go far for a while.

Agreed, that's significantly more work (and may make sox harder to
install/run on some platforms).

> Was it you that mentioned macport's has a patch to support BSD-like ftp in
> place of wget?  Can you post patch to this list by chance?
> 
> I see no down side to optionally supporting ftp in SoX; in addition to wget.

How about supporting all of curl(1), wget, and ftp (in that order)?
I think curl is preferable if available since it supports the most protocols.
"ftp" functionality seems ambiguous between different platforms.

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