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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-03-28 21:48:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-03-28 21:48:46 +0200 |
| commit | 4b35fc7bdd7ab723cb3db8e9122ed08d996f33b4 (patch) | |
| tree | e4bb2ffadd136ab05b8abc3c0fa9f305f8c360fe /community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn | |
| parent | 34794c7002f679ab9c2d076284ff58288224c47d (diff) | |
| parent | 96611f76b833159bafeab3443229dfa690178d92 (diff) | |
Merge commit '96611f76b833159bafeab3443229dfa690178d92' into master-news_next
Conflicts:
news/2010-03-31.mdwn
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn index 749597a6..f794e814 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Download protocols like FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent etc. are very good candidates for this kind of modularization: a program could simply use the download functionality by accessing FTP, HTTP etc. translators. -There is already an ftpfs traslator in the Hurd tree, as well as an [httpfs +There is already an ftpfs translator in the Hurd tree, as well as an [httpfs translator on hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#httpfs); however, these are only suitable for very simple use cases: they just provide the actual file contents downloaded from the URL, but no additional status information @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The goal of this project is to design a suitable interface, implement it for at least one download protocol, and adapt apt-get (or some other program) to use this as a backend. -This task requires some design skills and some knowlegde of internet protocols, +This task requires some design skills and some knowledge of internet protocols, to create a suitable interface. Translator programming knowledge will have to be obtained while implementing it. |