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@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ What's apportate's featureset, anyway?
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Right now, it retrieves data over HTTP or Gopher, and can support TLS,
at least when it comes to HTTPS. I'd like a more general approach to
TLS support in the future.
TLS support in the future. You can build it with any implementation of
TLS so long as there's a libtls built atop it. Right now, that's Bear,
Libre, and Open at the least.
Its source code is small (< 500 lines of C total according to cloc right
now) and uses only POSIX routines -- there's no temptation to use GNU
@ -36,8 +38,5 @@ Apportate also aims to have actually useful diagnostics; that is,
compared to other tools, apportate aims to only provide useful error
output. In the case of success, it follows the Rule of Silence; on
unrecoverable errors, it aborts immediately. It supports multiple levels
of verbosity, and exposes almost all of its internal operations for debugging..
Its simple design and use should also make it relatively convenient
for inclusion in shell scripts.
of verbosity, and exposes almost all of its internal operations for debugging.