Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Bauhaus) writes: > Hrvoje Niksic, Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:58:02 +0200: >> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? >> > >> > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. >> >> How so?

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I almost can't believe this is serious -- ansi2knr and the PARAMS >> macro are concession enough to pre-ANSI compilers; I wouldn't want to >> encumber the program with the K&R-style function definitions too. > > i agree that supporting K&R compilers i

Re: --disable-dns-cache

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeremy Reeve wrote: > >> I've written a trivial patch to implement the --disable-dns-cache feature >> as described in the TODO contained in the CVS tree. I need to write the >> Changelog entry which I'll do and post to the patches

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic, Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:58:02 +0200: >> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? >>> >>> it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. >> >> How so? It adds the complexity to

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Georg Bauhaus
Hrvoje Niksic, Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:58:02 +0200: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? > > > > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. > > How so? It adds the complexity to the build process, and i

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i don't like the automatic de-ANSI-fication approach. what do you think of > > this approach instead: > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_51.html > > > > part of the wget code alre

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. >> >> How so? It adds the complexity to the build process, and it makes a >> crucial build component (Makefiles) almost impossible to understand, >> debug, and modify. > > that's a point

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? > > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. How so? It adds the complexity to the build process, and it makes a crucial build component (Makefiles) almost impossible

Re: --disable-dns-cache

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeremy Reeve wrote: > I've written a trivial patch to implement the --disable-dns-cache feature > as described in the TODO contained in the CVS tree. I need to write the > Changelog entry which I'll do and post to the patches list ASAP. you should probably not bother writing

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? > > > > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. > > How so? It adds the complexity to the build process, and it makes a

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > in fact, if you take a look at the Makefile.in's generated by automake in my > > package you'll see that they aren't much different from the original > > Makefile.in's contained in wget-1.9beta, so why bo

--disable-dns-cache

2003-09-02 Thread Jeremy Reeve
Hi all! I've written a trivial patch to implement the --disable-dns-cache feature as described in the TODO contained in the CVS tree. I need to write the Changelog entry which I'll do and post to the patches list ASAP. I am willing to put some time in to learn the code and provide some fixes an

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget? > > it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. you only need > 6 months (i am __definitely__ not joking here) to understand how the > automake/autoconf/libtool/gettext stu

RE: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Herold Heiko wrote: > Did you know wget is currently in lack of a maintainer ? the GNU website says (http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html): We are looking for new maintainers for these GNU packages (contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you'd like to volunteer): * GNU dumb

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > i hope that you will like the new autoconf-2.5x/automake-1.6-ed package. i > > also hope that the wget maintainer will consider accepting this patch. > > 1. There is no current wget maintainer. Your CVS t

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Herold Heiko wrote: > >> Did you know wget is currently in lack of a maintainer ? > > the GNU website says (http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html): > > We are looking for new maintainers for these GNU packages (contact > <[EMAIL PRO

Download an article for off-line browsing problem

2003-09-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, RH8.0 wget-1.8.2-5 I just join this list. I encountered problem in using following syntax $ wget --no-parent http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3174/1 $ wget --no-parent http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3174/1/ $ wget http://www.linuxplan

WackGet 1.2.2

2003-09-02 Thread Keith Craigie
We released WackGet 1.2.2 for Windows. Changelog: http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/CHANGES.txt Download: http://millweed.com/projects/wackget Cheers, Keith

RE: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Herold Heiko
Did you know wget is currently in lack of a maintainer ? If you have time to perform those enhancements you enlistened you should probably apply as (at least temporary) maintainer. This wouldn't mean you would be forced to devolve more time to wget than you can and want, or tackle issus you really

Re: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-02 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > i hope that you will like the new autoconf-2.5x/automake-1.6-ed package. i > also hope that the wget maintainer will consider accepting this patch. 1. There is no current wget maintainer. Your CVS tree has a good chance of becoming the official one

Wget on OS X

2003-09-02 Thread Josef Schneider
I successfully compiled and have used GNU Wget 1.8.2 on Mac OS 10.2.6. Thanks for the swell software. Josef Schneider __ OUTPUT OF ./config.guess __ creating cache ./config.cache configuring for GNU Wget 1.8.2 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.6 chec