Tim On Wednesday 18 May 2016 08:08:54 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On May 18, 2016, at 3:21 AM, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > This HFS+ issue should be easy to fix, but without an environment to test > > it, my motivation to spent my precious spare-time on that is pretty low. > > > > Ryan, how much trouble do you really have when using wget outside the test > > suite ? (International) Files should be saved correct. > > It is just the test suite that re-reads the (decomposed) filenames from > > disk (using opendir/readdir) and compares them byte-by-byte with the > > precomposed strings. Of course that fails. IMO, normal wget operation > > does not do these kind of comparisons, so everything should be fine. > > I'm not aware of any problems related to this issue when actually using > wget. I merely ran the test suite, noticed it failed, searched to see if > that failure was known, and was thus reminded that I had reported the > failure years ago, and my report appeared to have gotten lost or forgotten, > so I was bringing it back to the developers' attention again. A test suite > should verify the software functions properly. If a test suite fails, one > is left to wonder if the problem is in the software being tested or in the > test suite itself. Fixing the test suite would eliminate that uncertainty.
It's a bug and should be fixed, no doubt. But remember, Wget is a community project. You are part of this community. And you obviously have a OSX test environment... something that I don't have. Tim P.S.: What bug number is it, just found #27541 which is not OSX specific.
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