Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I deliberately chose to remove all wget support.
>> If someone can make a really good case for reintroducing such support
>
> gnulib-tool's --import handling continues to use wget for the purpose of
> downloading the PO files.
>
> The reason is that IMO 'wget' is more frequently preinstalled than 'rsync'
> on normal Linux distributions, i.e. if the script uses 'wget', it runs
> out-of-the-box for more people.

Remember the context:
Anyone using developer tools like autoconf, automake, cvs, gperf, etc.,
is very likely also to have rsync installed.
Which reminds me.  I'm adding it to the list in README-hacking:

  - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
  - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
  - Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
  - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
  - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
  - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
  - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>