Re: Bugs, bugs, bugs -- help!
Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman <oberman(a)es.net> writes:
Kevin> I also think efs REALLY needs to be included in the base
Kevin> distribution!
Jan> Package get really needs to use http by default as stripped-down
Jan> url-http is a lot more lightweight then efs and can therefore be put
Jan> in the base distribution. (MS has refused making an efs-light for this
Jan> purpose, for good reason).
I think this is very important. Setting up efs is not always easy,
especially if you're behind a firewall[1]. But almost all companies have
an http proxy to let people go out and get stuff.
Right now I have to manually ftp packages, so I just usually end up
ftp'ing the entire packages directory because it's too much work to
update just the packages I want.
We could either strip down url-http, or start writing some of this in
C. :) I'm game either way. I've had zero time for working on Emacs/W3 the
last few months though.
-Bill P.