On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Darshit Shah <dar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Unless we add something like --ignore-wgetrc-errors... > > I think that's over-engineering the problem. > > > > Some time ago, Tim, if I remember correctly proposed using version > > lines. So, newer commands can be marked as valid under a certain > > version only. The whole scheme can be made backward compatible by > > assuming the lack of a version line to imply the current version. > > how would that prevent that wget should not ignore certain directives? > An older wget doesn't know how to deal with newer directives, what other > alternatives beside fail/ignore do we have? > Wait, older versions will always fail on such a wgetrc file. It was a half baked idea that I proposed. Scratch that. -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
