[upforgrabs] tools/update

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:itgadv$2ggr$3 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>

wget is available in Windows (I have it installed), but 
finding/downloading/installing any of the GNU command line tools on Windows 
is a royal pain. And even if it weren't, I agree, it's better to just not 
have that dependency anyway.