[Popcon-developers] Bug#239097: HTTP Post method for popcon

Bill Allombert Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>, 239097@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:59:52 +0100


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:36:47AM +0000, Thom May wrote:
> > Also, popcon-upload.py is a python script. This will force user to
> > install python to use HTTP POST, and such users will always report
> > python as 'used in the last month' so this will artificially inflate the
> > usage of python in popcon stats. So I would prefer to stick with perl.
> >
> *shrug*; your choice. Given the number of other utilities in python, such as
> reportbug, I don't see this as a big deal.

well, but why not use wget --post-file instead then, instead of writing
a dedicated script ?

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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