[upforgrabs] tools/update

[Jose Armando Garcia]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2011-06-17 18:15, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg<doob at me.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2011-06-10 22:09, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> * A particular feature and the most important that I needed was to easy
>>> download files via HTTP, Tango makes this very easy. Now Phobos is
>>> getting a
>>> curl wrapper which should make it as easy, don't know the status of that
>>> though. I don't want to and don't know how to use a low level socket to
>>> do
>>> this.
>>>
>>
>> You can always exec a program. You can just call the wget or curl or even
>> scp!
>
> That just creates additional dependencies and these tools are not available
> on Windows. Creating a new process also takes additional resources, time,
> memory and so on.

Windows? Who programs for that thing? Just kidding. I know of the
problems. My comment was meant as a obscure comment about that aspect
of the Windows platform.