Hmm, maybe other curl devs have not yet shared the idea about Metalink
with Daniel.

On 12月17日, 午前2:22, "Anthony Bryan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Nicolas Alvarez
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Anthony Bryan wrote:
> >> This is a neat patch, but IMHO it doesn't belong in the curl command line
> >> client. It adds functionality that goes well beyond what curl is designed
> >> for and the UNIX philosophy behind it: to do one thing and do it well,
> >> which is to transfer individual URLs from/to individual sites
> >> and to allow all manner of tweaking that behaviour. That's why it
> >> doesn't do HTML parsing, remote URL globbing, recursive transfers,
> >> PAC proxy configuration, etc.
>
> >> Metalink support is designed for something other than what curl's primary
> >> mission is about. An indication of this is that of curl's 128 options,
> >> half become irrelevant (and even more are marginally relevant) when doing
> >> Metalink transfers. Adding two additional library dependencies to curl
> >> is also an issue.
>
> > Can I say "I told you so" or will I get flamed?
>
> no flames :)
>
> it's kinda confusing when Daniel, curl author, writes
>
> "The Metalink guys host a list of project ideas and one of those ideas
> is to add metalink support to curl, and I recently bumped the stakes a
> bit by raising the bounty with an additional 200 USD so that the offer
> is now 500 USD for the person or team that brings the feature as
> described.
>
> My primary motivation for doing this is that I like the metalink idea
> and I'd like to help making sure it gets used more widely."
>
> http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/11/09/metalink-in-curl-bounty/
>
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