Tony Kelman

Breadcrumb: in using this opensuse-built gcc to compile Julia itself, I did have to create a link here https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/398cea6e875c3acfc813badac270d9312b5a12ca/contrib/windows/get_toolchain.sh#L56 from `sys-root/mingw/include` to `sys-root/mingw/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include`. Still kind of a hack, but seems...

Ask upstream to put up a tarball from the result of `make dist`? Or do it manually with a `BuildProcess`, but that would force all users to have autoconf, automake,...

kinda stale, but that's #81. either way, should preserve the retrying

and for people who don't have admin rights and are unable to update powershell?

Changes to Base.download won't happen on 0.6 of course. Win 7 without admin rights is likely more common than any windows server versions, particularly without the admin rights needed there...

`curl` doesn't work through proxies.

ref https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3001#issuecomment-68808978 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl/issues/121 - does ``` readall(`powershell -Command "(new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(\"$source\")"`) ``` work? We won't be bundling git forever.

> so I suspect something else might have been the problem in those cases Quite possible. Or it needs to be configured somehow, or the version of curl that is...

A lot of people have reported download troubles with WinRPM though, so definitely worth trying out some other options to see if we can make it more robust.

Pretty sure everyone thinks `download` is worth having in Base. I agree that it's not ideal to have the Base version be gimpy and incapable of handling many use cases....