Thanks for your report! I have updated the help string for --random-wait. Cheers, Giuseppe
Tom Mizutani <[email protected]> writes: > I recently look into Wget documentations and found the > specification of "--random-wait" option seems to have been > changed, but not explicitly announced in "ChangeLog"s. > To make things worse, help messages included > in src/main.c and po/*.po are obsolete. > > I suggest to update main.c and *.po files and show changes > in --random-wait option explicitly in ChangeLogs. > > In the latest version Wget 1.12, doc/wget.texi, which comes > with http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.lzma, says: >>This option causes the time between requests >>to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 * wait seconds... > It was changed from what I knew. > > I dug into GNU archives and found that doc/wget.texi included > in http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz says; >>This option causes the time between requests >>to vary between 0 and 2 * wait seconds... > > I also found a comment in src/retr.c of version 1.10.2 says: > /* Sleep a random amount of time averaging in opt.wait > seconds. The sleeping amount ranges from 0 to > opt.wait*2, inclusive. */ > and comments in src/retr.c in versions 1.11.1 and 1.12 say: > /* Sleep a random amount of time averaging in opt.wait > seconds. The sleeping amount ranges from 0.5*opt.wait to > 1.5*opt.wait. */ > > On the other hand, help messages in src/main.c > in Wget-1.12 archive still says: >>--random-wait wait from 0...2*WAIT secs >between retrievals > and corresponding messages in *.po files say such > (All I understand is en_US.po,en_GB.po,ja.po, though). > > This inconsistency is confusing and the help message > should be updated. I also suggest the changes should be > reflected in the ChangeLog file. > > Regards,
