Re: Statically linked build of 0install

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 16:57, Miess, Philip (TR Tech, Content & Ops)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> FYI I have a couple FTP archives that I set up this year
>
> https://pmiess.gitlab.io/0install-feeds/netcdf.xml
> FTP site is the first of three alternatives
> Used by gnuwin32 gri
>
> And
> https://pmiess.gitlab.io/0install-feeds/pthreads-win32.xml
> Only ftp archive so the change will break this feed.
> There are some linked http mirrors on the homepage I could set up to fix it.
> Used by gnuwin32 chess
>
> So I would need to modify 1 feed to handle this change, and should modify one more to remove the ftp archive if it's not allowed.
>
> Personally I'd prefer to keep ftp, that way if an archive is only available via ftp I don't have to mirror the archive (and source to comply with GPL), but if it becomes necessary I think I can do so on GitLab, since I only publish open source packages.

I guess implementing a simple passive get using ftp should be fairly
easy. There's a single-threaded library at
http://opam.ocaml.org/packages/ftp/ which could be a starting point.


-- 
talex5 (GitHub/Twitter)        http://roscidus.com/blog/
GPG: 5DD5 8D70 899C 454A 966D  6A51 7513 3C8F 94F6 E0CC