From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag@wieers.com]
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
Well, I could, but why would you use ncftp when lftp is actually more feature complete and much better overall. (ncftp is not open source actually).
If there's a good reason you might convince me to do the extra work.
Well, this came up because perl CPAN wants to use ncftpget to download files, and it couldn't find it on my system... does lftp contain a functional equivalent?
It includes lftpget. It seems strange to me that CPAN is using ncftp and does not look for any alternatives. You may have to look into that first.
I seem to remember that CPAN prompts for your ftp client when you do the initialization. You may want to go through that process again and specify lftpget when it asks.
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> o conf init
Bowie
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I seem to remember that CPAN prompts for your ftp client when you do the initialization. You may want to go through that process again and specify lftpget when it asks.
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> o conf init
I believe CPAN is going to use other methods of retrieving data, if you have programs available. One of them is wget that works for both FPT and HTTP. It should detect and use it if present.
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