Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

2007-09-08 Thread Bruno Haible
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-

Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

2007-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I deliberately chose to remove all wget support. >> If someone can make a really good case for reintroducing such support > > gnulib-tool's --import handling continues to use wget for the purpose of > downloading the PO files. > > The

Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

2007-09-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > I deliberately chose to remove all wget support. > If someone can make a really good case for reintroducing such support gnulib-tool's --import handling continues to use wget for the purpose of downloading the PO files. The reason is that IMO 'wget' is more frequently preins

bootstrap update from coreutils

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Meyering
The Translation Project now provides rsync access, (just had to ask :-) thanks to Jeroen Dekkers for setting up rsyncd, and Benno Schulenberg for the quick replies. So along with some other changes, now coreutils' bootstrap script makes much more efficient use of network bandwidth. However, now