On Wednesday 21 May 2014 16:32:59 Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> writes:
> > AFAIK, it is more a 'would be nice'. Guiseppe as the maintainer should
> > know or at least is in the right position to ask someone of the GNU
> > 'organization'.
> I guess that nobody in the FSF knows better than us what is the best
> technical decision to take for the project, so let's not involve them
> before we know what we want.

Hmm, I thought more about 'political' decisions. Of course we know the 
technical part better than anyone else, well, I hope so ;-)

> Mine was a proposal, not a decision, I was also thinking about HTTP 2.0
> support: delegating the HTTP layer to libcurl will give us support for
> HTTP 2.0 when it will be needed.  HTTP 2.0 will be needed by wget
> because it will help a lot in the recursive retrieving scenario.

That's an argument.

> > I am not sure, how we find enough people-power for this task. On the other
> > hand side, that's what I've done in the Mget project. I guess, a merge of
> > Mget and Wget would be less work. Mget already implements most of Wget's
> > options plus a bunch more.
> 
> That is exactly the problem, we haven't enough people-power :-(
> If there are things in mget that can be merged into wget now, I think we
> should just do it.  I think you are in the best position, as mget author
> and long term wget contributor to suggest future steps here :-)  Is
> there anything we can easily move to wget?

Let me think about it. Currently I do not have much time (work, family, bees, 
garden, ... keep me busy), but it should be enough to make a plan in the 1-2 
weeks.

Regards, Tim


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