Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

[Bruno Haible]

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.

Bruno