On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 11:23:43PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > The purpose of wcurl is partly defined by the fact that it's not upstream, so: > > * To be a command that lets users download files without having to pass any > parameters, using curl;
This goal, strictly as written, applies to curl as well. > Do I understand correctly that you're saying wcurl is close to what you have > in > mind, only missing the nice parameters you gave as an example? It sounds like > what you had in mind is also a simple portable script (but with its own > parameters instead of doing the -o wrapping). wcurl currently doesn't do much more than a shell alias, so it's not at all like the tool I envisioned. My idea in a nutshell is a wget clone (as far as it can be cloned given the following constraint) of all features provided by curl and no more. That restricts the tool to basically command-line option translation and allows it to be written in highly-portable Bourne shell. But, since wget, when you run it without options, just downloads a file to disk, my made-up tool would work very similarly (identically?) to wcurl when given just a URL. Dan -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
