[sorry for the empty mail I just posted, was fighting my keyboard ...]
Craig> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the Craig> installer should: Craig> Craig> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or Craig> an ftp script) Sten> Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it Sten> difficult to use standard ftp tools. Invoking ftp from an installer Sten> script would only cause trouble. wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct proxy server. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the latest official figures, http://rosebud.ml.org/~edd 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .