I haven't looked in to these recently, but my memory is that I struck
a problem with wget on Windows when I was working on web/gethttp to do
with stdout/stderr - will search the forums later.

The following will hopefully help inform any discussion.
Below is a summary for each of the tools of: the currently J-shipped
version; the latest released version and the changelog.

Current versions shipped with J are:
wget.exe: 1.10.2  vs 1.13.4
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/wget/trunk/annotate/2563/NEWS

jpcre.dll: Not sure but probably 6.6 or 6.7  vs 8.32
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt

unzip.exe: 5.52
http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html

zip.exe: 2.32
http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The binaries for ftp, regex & zip/unzip that are currently shipped with J
>> are getting rather long in the tooth (2005/6). Would it make sense to
>> update them for the J8 release?
>
> "long in the tooth" is a feature, for people that like stuff that
> works for a long time.
>
> it can be worth upgrading when there's useful innovations that can be
> adopted or when something is broken. But both of these cases deserve
> documentation.
>
> Are either of these the case yet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
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