Hi Francis,
> > The SSL/crypto bits are needed for curl to be able to download from https
> > sites. I'm pretty sure Coot uses libcurl for any http downloads it does.
>
> You've seen a lot more distros than I have, is curl a standard binary
> these days? (it certainly is for OS X) wget? Couldn't Coot just use the
> binary that came with the operating system?
No. The library is the proper thing to use. If he were going to use the
the command line tool, Paul would have to write a wrapper around the tool
that would be able to understand what features differing versions of curl
provide, what the error messages and exit codes were, etc. In effect,
he'd be writing his own library API around the command line tool.
> > libldap is probably just a dependency of whatever system library is getting
> > pulled in to do account information lookups, i.e. libnss and the like.
>
> A molecular graphics program needs my account information? Scary.
Account information in UNIX is things like your username, UID, GID, GECOS
information, etc. Google knows more about you than your linux machine
does. I wouldn't worry about it.
-b
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