-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Tony Lewis wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >>> And how is .tar.gz renamed? .tar-1.gz? >> Ouch. > > OK. I'm responding to the chain and not Hrvoje's expression of pain. :-) > > What if we changed the semantics of --no-clobber so the user could specify > the behavior? I'm thinking it could accept the following strings: > - after: append a number after the file name (current behavior) > - before: insert a number before the suffix > - new: change name of new file (current behavior) > - old: change name of old file > > With this scheme --no-clobber becomes equivalent to --no-clobber=after,new. > If I want to change where the number appears in the file name or have the > old file renamed then I can specify the behavior I want on the command line > (or in .wgetrc). I think I would change my default to > --no-clobber=before,old. > > I think it would be useful to have semantics in .wgetrc where I specify what > I want my --no-clobber default to be without that meaning I want > --no-clobber processing on each invocation. It would be nice if I could say > that I want my default to be "before,old", but to only have that apply when > I specify --no-clobber on the command line.
Well, I've certainly disliked the fact that --no-clobber means different times in different modes, and that in certain situations it's impossible to get the "--clobber" semantics. The fact that there's a convoluted explanation in the manual about -nc, enumerating none of -r -p or -N, -r or -p but not -N, and -N with or without -r or -p (and that the explanation is currently incorrect when -nd is involved), helps confirm my belief that it should be several separate options, rather than just one. I'll certainly be rectifying this in "Reget", if we decide to go with that proposal; I'm not yet sure whether I'll do it for Wget: probably, but it'd be a later priority. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHPep37M8hyUobTrERCMdiAKCAx1QpHfGHRMSMY/xIjUe+Dm9pAwCfZFNI QmPFhgvNTFH5FkwDU3bfRfE= =6MKK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
