[Swift-devel] coaster wget dependency

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 23:46 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> right. its fine to have those as prerequisites, I think, but its nicer to 
> discover them in a README than in a process of of "log into remote site, 
> figure out where is log file, read error message"

Or... it could be an error message saying "no wget or curl were found".
As long as we keep that script below the max argv character length of
the various pieces involved.

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