The wget command will now be used in preference to curl, if available.

Got tired of curl's various ugly progress bars.

Utility.hs

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ module Utility (
 	dirContains,
 	dirContents,
 	myHomeDir,
-	catchBool
+	catchBool,
+	inPath
 ) where
 
 import IO (bracket)
@@ -94,3 +95,12 @@ myHomeDir = do
 {- Catches IO errors and returns a Bool -}
 catchBool :: IO Bool -> IO Bool
 catchBool = flip catch (const $ return False)
+
+{- Checks if a command is available in PATH. -}
+inPath :: String -> IO Bool
+inPath command = search =<< getSearchPath
+	where
+		search [] = return False
+		search (d:ds) = do
+			e <- doesFileExist $ d </> command
+			if e then return True else search ds

Utility/Url.hs

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import Network.URI
 import Types
 import Messages
 import Utility.SafeCommand
+import Utility
 
 type URLString = String
 
@@ -35,15 +36,24 @@ exists url =
 				_ -> return False
 
 {- Used to download large files, such as the contents of keys.
- - Uses curl program for its progress bar. -}
+ - Uses wget or curl program for its progress bar. (Wget has a better one,
+ - so is preferred.) -}
 download :: URLString -> FilePath -> Annex Bool
 download url file = do
-	showOutput -- make way for curl progress bar
-	-- Uses the -# progress display, because the normal one is very
-	-- confusing when resuming, showing the remainder to download
-	-- as the whole file, and not indicating how much percent was
+	showOutput -- make way for program's progress bar
+	e <- liftIO $ inPath "wget"
+	if e
+		then
+			liftIO $ boolSystem "wget"
+				[Params "-c -O", File file, File url]
+		else
+			-- Uses the -# progress display, because the normal
+			-- one is very confusing when resuming, showing
+			-- the remainder to download as the whole file,
+			-- and not indicating how much percent was
 			-- downloaded before the resume.
-	liftIO $ boolSystem "curl" [Params "-L -C - -# -o", File file, File url]
+			liftIO $ boolSystem "curl" 
+				[Params "-L -C - -# -o", File file, File url]
 
 {- Downloads a small file. -}
 get :: URLString -> IO String

debian/changelog

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ git-annex (3.20110820) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Set EMAIL when running test suite so that git does not need to be
     configured first. Closes: #638998
+  * The wget command will now be used in preference to curl, if available.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:41:01 -0400
 

debian/control

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
 	git | git-core,
 	uuid,
 	rsync,
-	curl,
+	wget | curl,
 	openssh-client
 Suggests: graphviz, bup, gnupg
 Description: manage files with git, without checking their contents into git

doc/install.mdwn

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ To build and use git-annex, you will need:
     (or `uuidgen` from util-linux)
   * [xargs](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/)
   * [rsync](http://rsync.samba.org/)
-  * [curl](http://http://curl.haxx.se/) (optional, but recommended)
+  * [wget](http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) or [curl](http://http://curl.haxx.se/) (optional, but recommended)
   * [sha1sum](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/) (optional, but recommended;
     a sha1 command will also do)
   * [gpg](http://gnupg.org/) (optional; needed for encryption)