Re: [gnulib-tool-py] Deprecating of rsync and wget

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> I'm currently working on generation of po files and recently I've
> found a piece of code where we decide whether to choose between rsync
> and wget. I'd like to deprecate them both since we have some modules
> in Python which allow to download files without calling system
> utilities (e.g. httplib2). How do you look if I deprecate rsync and
> wget completely? I'd like to remove as much bash code as it is
> possible at this time, but if you want I can leave this part of code
> unchanged.

Personally, I think using python modules will often
be the better solution, assuming they are relatively stable
and sufficiently widely (or perhaps merely "easily") installed.

I'll bet you can find a module to take advantage of rsync's
compression option, so that we don't lose that optimization.