Re: looking for wget-like module for getching software

2004-12-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day schrieb: > > that is, i can just say, "go get file gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2", and start > > searching at "ftp://pub.gnu.org/pub/gcc";. i may not know how far down > > in the directory structure that file is, but wget will happily search >

Re: looking for wget-like module for getching software

2004-12-16 Thread Stefan Behnel
Robert P. J. Day schrieb: that is, i can just say, "go get file gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2", and start searching at "ftp://pub.gnu.org/pub/gcc";. i may not know how far down in the directory structure that file is, but wget will happily search recursively until it finds it. That sounds pretty inefficient

looking for wget-like module for getching software

2004-12-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just getting started with python, and i'm designing a program for fetching software from the net, given the package name, version number and/or date stamp, download method (tarball, CVS, etc.) and so on. i've already got a shell script doing this, but python would certainly clean up the code a