2010/10/15 Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]> > Rahul Prasad <[email protected]> writes: > > > What if someone does not know Shell Script ? > > Scripting is not a feature of Wget, Its a feature of Shell. I want to > > add this feature to wget so that end users wont have to write script. > > The user can learn how write a basic shell script. >
So, you mean we should remove all the features which can be achieved by scripting. > > IMO, it is a bad idea to bring this logic inside wget. It seems much > work and without any real advantage. Also, scripting is a more generic > solution as you can use it with any cli program; so if the user needs to > learn something new, better to learn something that can be useful in > other situations as well. > > Why do you want to impose something on end user. It should be an end-user's decision to choose whether or even what he wants to learn. I totally disagree with you. A good software should always consider its end-users a novice. Sometimes in order to make our linux user community more "knowledgeable" or "advance" we forget that most people don't want to learn technical stuff.
