In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an >> ftp script) > >Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it >difficult to use standard ftp tools. Invoking ftp from an >installer script would only cause trouble. It should instead be done >like the nescape installer package where the software is downloaded >manually to a tmp dir.
But there should be nothing wrong with providing for an -optional- automated download? Perhaps try to do the download if the script doesn't find a copy already downloaded? -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
