On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 13:04:15 +0200, steve donovan wrote: > I think in such cases requiring people to get one of the alternatives > curl, wget or fetch is ok. > > (The configure script will complain if it cannot find any of these.)
Well, it is present and supports HTTP, I don't understand how FreeBSD's fetch is any better than NetBSDs ftp, but I see that you can't support any possible download program some platform might have. You could always fall back to a simple lua implementation ;) > Actually, the whole point of my original message was that with a > little tweaking, the existing configure would work fine on FreeBSD, > out of the box. I apologize if I sometimes do ramble and get random. You just can't expect different operating systems to behave the same way in all cases (and I'm glad it is that way ;) It didn't seem too much rambling, but I wanted to clarify some things. Best, Moritz _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
