Re: [PATCH] bootstrap.sh: Use ftp instead of wget on OpenBSD

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Since the situation regarding fetchers in BSDs seems to be quite
> fragmented, and will probably be difficult for us to test all cases, how
> about leaving up to users to specify which fetch command to use (through
> an environment variable, say, FETCHCMD), falling back to "wget -c" in
> case FETCHCMD is not set?
> 
> This approach should also provide more flexiblity to other systems
> (including Linux) where wget might not be available.

Hm, I think that's overengineering it.  This is just bootstrap.sh we're
talking about, which is already quite a niche use case (typically, users
will use a (pre)release tarball).

Maybe it's fine as it is?  I've never heard any complaints about it.
What prompted you to come up with this patch in the first place?

Cheers,
Peter