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

2003-09-08 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Thanks, I never would have caught those myself. Do you have suggestions for Autoconf 2.5x features Wget could put to good use? Not ATM, although I might dig my mail archive for past discussions. Anyway I think it might be worthwhile to scan the whole

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

2003-09-07 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I couldn't send the patches earlier, sorry. Besides what you have already done, I have the following bits within my changes. Thanks, I never would have caught those myself. Do you have suggestions for Autoconf 2.5x features Wget could put to good

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

2003-09-05 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: If you have patches for Wget's configure.in to work with Autoconf 2.5x, I'll gladly accept those, too. Please note that the changes to support lone autoconf 2.5x

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

2003-09-05 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: I now did some of the changes myself, at least the obvious ones -- see the attached patch in case I missed something. The current configure.in would probably work with both 2.13 and 2.5x, but that's not a long-term requirement. The next step is to

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

2003-09-04 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: If you have patches for Wget's configure.in to work with Autoconf 2.5x, I'll gladly accept those, too. Please note that the changes to support lone autoconf 2.5x are minimal and almost exclusively m4 quotation corrections. I think I sent a patch

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

2003-09-04 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: If you have patches for Wget's configure.in to work with Autoconf 2.5x, I'll gladly accept those, too. Please note that the changes to support lone autoconf 2.5x are minimal and almost exclusively m4

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

2003-09-03 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: [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

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

2003-09-03 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: 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 KR-style function definitions too. i

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

2003-09-03 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about the patch for src/url.c? It looks fine, but I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary to install full IP address understanding at the URL parsing level. please, take a look at RFC 2732. it is just 6 pages long and it is an IETF

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

2003-09-03 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Outside Unix this is needlessly complex and completely unnecessary, not to mention that it doesn't work outside a shell requirement. Wget tries to help by allowing you to completely avoid Autoconf and simply provide your own Makefile and config.h.

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

2003-09-03 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Outside Unix this is needlessly complex and completely unnecessary, not to mention that it doesn't work outside a shell requirement. Wget tries to help by allowing you to completely avoid Autoconf and

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

2003-09-03 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you show me an example of a URL that failed to parse? the problem was not with false negatives, but with false positives instead. URLs like: http://[2001.23]/

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

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

2003-09-02 Thread Herold Heiko
Mailing List Subject: autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta hi to everybody, i have just imported into the deepspace6.net CVS repository a modified version of wget 1.9 beta: http://cvs.deepspace6.net/view/wget/ i have fixed a bug in the parsing of urls

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 PROTECTED] if

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 tree has

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 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 stuff

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 bother

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 crucial

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 i didn't take

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 KR-style function definitions too. i agree that supporting KR compilers is a good

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? It adds the

autoconf 2.5x and automake support for wget 1.9 beta

2003-09-01 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
hi to everybody, i have just imported into the deepspace6.net CVS repository a modified version of wget 1.9 beta: http://cvs.deepspace6.net/view/wget/ i have fixed a bug in the parsing of urls with embedded ipv6 addresses (the previous check was not exaustive, the new code is taken