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Subject: Re: Living with a proxy
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:54:13 +0200
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Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:
>
>  > Currently Guix uses Guile=E2=80=99s HTTP client, which doesn=E2=80=99t=
 support proxies
>  > (the FTP client doesn=E2=80=99t either.)  It should support it though.
>  >=20
>  > It shouldn=E2=80=99t be too difficult to implement, but I=E2=80=99m no=
t too familiar
>  > with all that, so I=E2=80=99d welcome ideas and patches.  ;-)
>
> Proxies are a big mess, so my first idea is to let someone else do the
> hard work.

That=E2=80=99s a plan I can only agree with.  ;-)

> More concretely, I was thinking if libcurl, for which there are already
> Guile bindings:
>
>    http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html

So, the problem is that Guix currently uses HTTP and FTP clients
entirely written in Scheme.  Besides the aesthetic advantage, it allows
us to have one fewer dependency, and greatly simplifies distro
bootstrapping (as soon as we have Guile running, we can start
downloading what=E2=80=99s needed.)

So I would really like to have proxy support in our own HTTP and FTP
clients.  I=E2=80=99ll take a look, or tweak some other Guile hacker into d=
oing
it.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.