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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:10:15 +0100 (CET) From: Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Patch for Metalink Support To: the curl tool <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote: > I made a patch to add very basic Metalink support to curl command-line tool. > The patch is made against curl-7.19.2. Although the patch is still rather > experimental, it provides basic fail over functionality. I would like to play around with this patch and functionality a bit, but I have an initial request: I'd like this patch to have as low impact as possible on the existing code so I would really like to see perhaps a separate file added with the necessary metalink support functions or similar, so that all devs and users who don't care for metalink wouldn't have to see many traces of it. -- / daniel.haxx.se On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Tatsuhiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- (( 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
