From: Raymond T. <to...@rt...> - 2000-02-29 14:57:34
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>>>>> "Don" == Don Cohen <do...@co...> writes: >> Let's discuss what a "download tool" should do. I believe it should >> provide an abstraction of the "checkout" operations provided by >> several VCS systems. If the system happens to be on a remote system >> *and* the VCS provides some client/server services then the operation >> would become a "download". Don> Certainly download is a lot like checkout. I'm not sure which is Don> an abstraction of which. The implementation of download might well Don> end up calling checkout. I hope not. I do most of my downloading and stuff from work during lunch, so if it can't get through a firewall (that means no ssh or cvs) then it's useless to me. In fact, even doing an ftp is a problem. To me, the only truly portable solution is http. Ray |