On 06/21/2012 01:33 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: > On 06/21/2012 11:12 AM, illusionoflife wrote: >> Hello, Free Hackers! >> >> Currently, I got idea to feed wget sources to GNU complexity tool >> and try to simplify some of extremely long functions. During exploring, >> I found, that we have two independed implementations of *read_whole_line* in >> netrc.c and utils.c. In netrc.c it is ifdefed STANDALONE. So my question, >> what >> is stadalone build case, when it is used and may I somehow reduce code >> duplication? For me, less code - less problems. > > IIRC, that was to allow the URL-extraction portion of wget to be built > stand-alone, so that it would create a tool that just extract URLs and > spit them out, and not as part of some wget run. > > I haven't heard of anyone doing that for quite some time, and it hasn't > been getting active testing or support, so Caveat Attemptor or something. :)
Gah. This of course applies to the STANDALONE for html-parse. Presumably, the one in netrc allows it to extract netrc info and then spit it out, or something. Same descriptions apply there, though. -mjc
