Max Bowsher wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: >> Max Bowsher wrote: >> >>> So, I'm looking for comments, and suggestions for candidate http/ftp >>> client libraries to investigate. >> >> What's wrong with libcurl? It has extensive support for all kinds of >> extended http/ftp features, see for example >> <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html>, and is MIT-licensed so >> should be no problem statically linking it into setup.exe. > > Indeed, libcurl was one which came to mind. > I've yet to play with it, but one thing I'm a little worried about is it > being *too* extensive - I don't want setup.exe to grow very much.
If you are worried about the size of setup, would it help to move /cygwin.bat and /cygwin.ico into base-files? I've an update going out for this soon and it would be little/no trouble... (I could even rename them to have a captial 'C' so they don't clash with /cygdrive ;) J.