JuliaLang/julia — pull request #1496 by timholy (2012-11-03 15:45:53+00:00)
Title: RFC: slightly more robust download_file

This supports any one of several possible download agents, and issues an error if no suitable candidate can be found.

The "danger" here (and why it's an RFC) is that this patch runs UNIX commands at Julia startup, and I felt it would be better to give people a chance to test on platforms different from mine.

Apologies to the Windows crowd; I do not know what the right thing to do here would be.