FS#12538 : Third download method

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FS#12538 - Third download method - using a callback

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Xilon (Xilon) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 16:15 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 23 July 2009, 02:40 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category	Backend/Core
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	3.2.1
Due in Version	3.3.0
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

I was just reading through the download functions. It occurred to me that it is possible to remove the libfetch/libdownload dependency by configuring with --disable-internal-download. This would be beneficial to frontends which do not want the extra dependency just for downloading. Unfortunately the only alternative is to use an external process to do the downloading instead. Would it be possible to have a third method, one which simply uses a callback function to let the front-end handle downloading?

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Closed by Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 02:40 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Commit 30c4d53ce5c16cbbb17a88fe1ad14faf53d91999