> FYI, curl is already available as a port: /usr/ports/ftp/curl even if it's
> not part of the base system.
Yes I fully realize that. My point though is that libfetch to me seems a bit
limited in its feature set, while there exists other tools that implement
what libfetch does and much more. Using curl/libcurl from the base system
would allow many part of the system to quickly gain functionality:
- the ports system could use HTTPS/FTPS to grab port distributions
- same for sysinstall
- same for fetch
implementing SSL support in libfetch does not seem to be a good idea IMO and
will not be an easy task anyway. The effort required to include libcurl in
the base system is small in comparison and will provide *almost free*
improvements over time...
Patrick.
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