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/ > > -- > (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [http://www.metalinker.org] > )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
