From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rune Zedeler Subject: Re: Git-bug: Dependency of curl Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:53:10 +0100 Message-ID: <45B57896.9050600@daimi.au.dk> References: <45B52E5A.1050706@daimi.au.dk> <1169515666.5868.26.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 23 03:53:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9Bma-0006Vb-44 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:53:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932671AbXAWCxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:53:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932694AbXAWCxI (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:53:08 -0500 Received: from mx05.stofanet.dk ([212.10.10.25]:51160 "EHLO mx05.stofanet.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932671AbXAWCxH (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:53:07 -0500 Received: from 56340cee.rev.stofanet.dk ([86.52.12.238]) by mx05.stofanet.dk (envelope-from ) with esmtp id 1H9BmS-0001V3-1C; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:53:04 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070104) To: James Purser In-Reply-To: <1169515666.5868.26.camel@localhost> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: James Purser wrote: > I've brought this to the notice of the Ubuntu guys (via Launchpad etc). > From what I can understand the way they've got it setup is as a > "recommended" rather than "required" download. Okay, thanks. As curl is commonly used with git, and ubuntu-users (yours truly included) are not used to packages not working out of the box, it would be nice with a more pedagogical error message if you try to use git with curl and curl is not installed. -Rune