Re: [proposal] set curl as default download method

Hi Volker --

On 2/27/2023 1:18 PM, Volker Schlecht wrote:
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>
> On 2/27/23 18:49, Stuart Henderson wrote:
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>> Ah, looking at that file note the difference between "curl" and
>> "libcurl", it seems that it tries to use libcurl first and then there
>> are fallbacks to use wget/curl binaries. So it seems the lines you
>> patched wouldn't have been reached in the first place if libcurl
>> detection was working properly?
>
> It's a fallback yes, but the fallback is implemented in function
> posixMethod(), which takes the fallback as a parameter, but only uses it
> if haveLibcurl==false:
>
> posixMethod <- function(utility) {
>       if (haveLibcurl)
>          "libcurl"
>       else if (nzchar(Sys.which(utility)))
>          utility
>       else
>          ""
>    }
>
> I'm quite certain that libcurl detection works and that
> haveLibcurl==true on OpenBSD, but unless the OS is one of "Windows",
> "Darwin" or "Linux", posixMethod() is never called, libcurl is never
> detected, and an empty string is returned...
>

Is there an updated patch on this?

~Brian