[pacman-dev] cvs unusable on x86_64

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/25/06, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/25, Christian Hamar alias krix <krics at gds.hu>:
> > > libfetch seems to be nice alternative to ftplib. It is small, has
> > > simple and stable API, is maintained, supports HTTP and FTP downloads
> > > and uploads, HTTP proxies and redirects.
> > > Sources are here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/
> > >
> >
> > Yes as i see. Its great and simple. And it supports file:/// too! Which
> > is not bad. Since as i know pacman now got "own" routin for handling
> > those types.
> >
> > I support libfetch! :)
> >
> > Vote for libfetch! libfetch for President! :) (sorry :) )
>
> libfetch is licensed under BSD license with some parts of code under
> MIT license. As they both are compatible with GPL I think there is no
> reason why not to use libfetch. ;-)

libfetch is a PITA to port... we'll probably have to fork it... as the
changes in the pas year or so have been minimal, I don't forsee a
problem with that.... I'm gonna try this out