Jim Meyering wrote: > Remember the context: > Anyone using developer tools like autoconf, automake, cvs, gperf, etc., > is very likely also to have rsync installed.
If you think so... rsync saves bandwidth, therefore I have no problem using it, as long as 'wget' is available as a fallback. 2007-09-08 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * gnulib-tool (func_import): Prefer rsync over wget when available, for fetching the PO files. *** gnulib-tool 26 Aug 2007 10:36:54 -0000 1.254 --- gnulib-tool 8 Sep 2007 23:03:50 -0000 *************** *** 2497,2506 **** fi # Fetch PO files. TP_URL="http://translationproject.org/latest/" if $doit; then echo "Fetching gnulib PO files from $TP_URL" (cd "$destdir"/$pobase \ ! && wget --quiet -r -l1 -nd -np -A.po "${TP_URL}gnulib" ) else echo "Fetch gnulib PO files from $TP_URL" --- 2497,2514 ---- fi # Fetch PO files. TP_URL="http://translationproject.org/latest/" + TP_RSYNC_URI="translationproject.org::tp/latest/" if $doit; then echo "Fetching gnulib PO files from $TP_URL" (cd "$destdir"/$pobase \ ! && { # Prefer rsync over wget if it is available, since it consumes ! # less network bandwidth, due to compression. ! if type rsync 2>/dev/null | grep / > /dev/null; then ! rsync -Lrtz "${TP_RSYNC_URI}gnulib/" . ! else ! wget --quiet -r -l1 -nd -np -A.po "${TP_URL}gnulib" ! fi ! } ) else echo "Fetch gnulib PO files from $TP_URL"