to followup, mulk uses libcurl and libmetalink. it's a command line downloader.
mulk & libmetalink are packaged for Fedora now, at least. hopefully Debian soon. http://mulk.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > When searching a sponsor for my libmetalink package, I've been asked[1] > whether there is any application that uses the library. > > "Mmm ...", I thought, "... axel v3 is not ready yet, but hey - that's easy: > libmetalink is developed by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa*, > aria2 is developed by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, > therefore: > aria2 uses libmetalink! > And anyway, who writes C nowadays? I bet lots of people are using > pylibmetalink!" > > Just to be sure, I looked at the code of aria2: It's actually not using > the library! > > "Oh well, off to python scripts, Google codesearch should find a few > ...". Long story short, I checked everything I could find with Google > codesearch[2] - everyone's using XML! > > So I'm asking you: Is there any application using this library? > > Cheers, > Philipp > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/11/msg00275.html > [2] http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=metalink+lang%3Apython > * Ok, you got me. I didn't actually remember that name accurately. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREKAAYFAkku5MQACgkQ9eq1gvr7CFy/CQCbB7fDUu8Hdn/HRP5J9xGD4ktb > FqMAn0+mmT6S+V/MXRHDqGsSiEykAoKv > =2v3p > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- (( 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
