-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So, as far as I'm concerned, the current sources are good for a (Unix) release. They seem to build and test fine on several prominent, modern Unix (and of course GNU) systems, and the test suites give me much more confidence in Wget's stability than I was ever able to achieve for any of the 1.11 releases.
I've given the latest version to the translators, as there is one new message string since they last had a go. Once they've had about a week (they tend to work quite quickly), Wget will probably be ready to release. If I get it to build on Windows (any method) before then, I'll include those relevant changes in the sources, too... but it may not include "frills" like IDN/IRI support, or even statically-linked builds. I think "polished" Windows support will probably have to wait until 1.12.1 - even if we get nice builds going for Windows wgets, there won't have been sufficient time to _test_ wget on Windows, so the quality will be dubious. In the past (1.11 "dot oh"), we threw up some candidate releases at alpha.gnu.org and let people have at it before putting up an official release. I do not believe that this was worth the time and effort, as it soon became plain that 1.11 had severe quality issues, despite giving people the opportunity to test. The truth is that this mailing list has a low number of people who are able to really exercise Wget, and the "real" testing doesn't take place until the distros start packaging it. Meanwhile, the test suites provide much better coverage than they had in 1.11, which helps to mitigate (but not eliminate) the risk in releasing something that hasn't had a "beta" cycle. I do expect that we'll probably get some build-failures on older or non-mainstream (or non-free) systems that didn't get any love for me during testing, and those sorts of patches will end up in 1.12.1. Having said all this, if anyone here _is_ interested in trying out Wget, the package I provided to the translators is available at http://addictivecode.org/wget/wget-1.12-pre6.tar.gz, and should work. This package includes the configure script and Makefile.in's, so you shouldn't need automake or autoconf. You _will_ need openssl (and associated header files, from the "-devel" package or whatnot) if you want HTTPS support, and you'll need libidn and (on some systems) libiconv if you want the IDN/IRI support. And "gettext", if you're on a non-GNU system and want Native Language Support. I may add a few more tests and tweaks, but that package is pretty close to what's going to be released soon. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqoINgACgkQ7M8hyUobTrFpRgCfT8N+hB2Io9WhnYd3umEoIYeC S/cAn3d9KPlHrjSsLEdY1iV+GcrjFZCV =WRJa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
