Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> I'm not sure what you mean about the linux thing; there are many >> instances of runtime loadable modules on Linux. dlopen() and friends are >> the standard way of doing this on any Unix kernel flavor. > >

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread L Walsh
Micah Cowan wrote: I'm not sure what you mean about the linux thing; there are many instances of runtime loadable modules on Linux. dlopen() and friends are the standard way of doing this on any Unix kernel flavor. I _thought_ so, but when I asked a distro why they didn't use this

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: > Tony Lewis wrote: >> Perhaps both versions can include multi-threaded support in their >> core version, but the lite version would never invoke >> multi-threading. > > I mentioned this in the first post as well. The main problem

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Lewis wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > >> Keeping a single Wget and using runtime libraries (which we were >> terming "plugins") was actually the original concept (there's >> mention of this in the first post of this thread, actually); the >> issu

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Tony Godshall
On 11/2/07, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > Keeping a single Wget and using runtime libraries (which we were terming > > "plugins") was actually the original concept (there's mention of this in > > the first post of this thread, actually); the issue is that there ar

RE: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Tony Lewis
Micah Cowan wrote: > Keeping a single Wget and using runtime libraries (which we were terming > "plugins") was actually the original concept (there's mention of this in > the first post of this thread, actually); the issue is that there are > core bits of functionality (such as the multi-stream su

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: > Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... > > Great ideas Micah! :-) > > On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a "clever" way to get > by with 1. Put the "optional" functionality into separate > run-time loadable file

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread L Walsh
Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... Great ideas Micah! :-) On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a "clever" way to get by with 1. Put the "optional" functionality into separate run-time loadable files. SGI's Unix (and MS Windows) do this. The "small wget" then checks to see

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/31/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> Tony Godshall wrote: > >>> Perhaps the little

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-31 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: > On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Tony Godshall wrote: >>> Perhaps the little wget could be called "wg". A quick google and >>> wikipedia search sho

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-31 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > Perhaps the little wget could be called "wg". A quick google and > > wikipedia search shows no real namespace collisions. > > To reduce confusion/upgrade problems, I

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Josh Williams wrote: > Although the code might > suck for those trying to read it, I think it could be very great with > a little regular maintenance. Oh, I think it's probably already earned a reputation for greatness at this point. But yeah, it ne

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel Stenberg wrote: > I guess I'm not the man to ask nor comment this a lot, but look what I > found: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg01129.html > > I've always thought and I still believe that wget's power and most > apprec

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: > Perhaps the little wget could be called "wg". A quick google and > wikipedia search shows no real namespace collisions. To reduce confusion/upgrade problems, I would think we would want to ensure that the "traditional"/little

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/26/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/26/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And, of course, when I say "there would be two Wgets", what I really > > mean by that is that the more exotic-featured one would be something > > else entirely than a Wget, and would have

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Micah Cowan wrote: The obvious solution to that is to use c-ares, which does exactly that: handle DNS queries asynchronously. Actually, I didn't know this until just now, but c-ares was split off from ares to meet the needs of the curl developers. :) We needed an asynch

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-26 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/26/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, of course, when I say "there would be two Wgets", what I really > mean by that is that the more exotic-featured one would be something > else entirely than a Wget, and would have a separate name. I think the idea of having two Wgets is goo