[Swift-devel] coaster wget dependency

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 29 18:42:07 CDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 23:39 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> in the excitement of a new OS install, I have discovered that coaster has 
> a wget dependency somewhere on the service side. that is common but not 
> always installed everywhere (especially in places that prefer curl...).

The bootstrap script can be made to use curl instead of wget.

> 
> the swift+coaster docs (if/when they appear) should probably document 
> additional dependencies like this (and like GNU md5sum) that are 
> potentially not installed places.

It's unfortunate, but some means to download a jar and some means to do
and md5 sum must exist. If not, the service would need to be started
manually on the target site.

> 




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