Re: [Cucumber-linux-development] New Buildscript Format

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Scott Court <sc...@cu...> wrote:
>
> I'm worried that using routines for other common utilities would decrease
> the readability of the buildinfo files.

I wouldn't use a routine just to alias a utility.  I think MXE just
uses shell variables.

> I don't think it is terribly likely that we'll need to use a different tar
> or other different utilities in the future.

There are some advantages to curl over wget that might be worth
looking into.  For one thing, it's better at following links that are
redirected.  I know the standard Slackbuild scripts typically use
wget, but I've pretty much switched to curl in most of my use cases.

I've also hit a few cases where the tar utility failed to unarchive a
source file and had to switch to other utilities.

Sincerely,
Laura