Axel tries to accelerate downloads by using multiple connections (possibly to
multiple servers) for one download. Because of its size, it might be very
useful on bootdisks or other small systems as a wget replacement.
Eg gettext gets added into LDFLAGS, INCLUDE and that. I hope I got everything
that is typical. Prolly not. But we'll find out.
Made readline keg_only because the BSD version is provided by OS X, and I
don't want bug reports that are tricky to solve due to unexpected differences
between the two.
GNU GetText breaks eg. Ruby 1.9 builds, and some other formula I have been building too. But it is required by eg. glib. So to solve this we are going to by default not symlink gettext into the Homebrew prefix.
Formula that depend on GetText will have the gettext paths added to the brewing environment automatically. Neat.
Eg. sbin may be part of the formula, but that isn't in the default Mac PATH. Also will avoid bug reports for users who forget to amend their PATH and stick Homebrew somewhere different.
For this to work the "running script" must be the formulae file. Making this
so wasn't so hard, there is now an install.rb script which is included with
the -r flag to the ruby executable. An at_exit handler calls the install
function.
Having the install logic in its own file made it feel like there was so much
space that I added extra error handling. So there is something to be said for
separating functionality out into its own files.
Still the error handling sucks, we'll need to marshall the exception back to
the bin/brew command. Which is another PITA.
Still overall I think this will prove worthwhile. But if it doesn't we'll
revert.
As a first usage, you can put a diff after __END__ and return DATA from
Formula::patches to make Homebrew aware of it.
