Hi,

I guess one thing is that we need (gn|c)url for other things than downloading 
(e.g. proxying see gns). Can wget do other things?
A brief look at the API makes me doubt that.
If not, then wget2 is just another additional dependency.

BR

> On 22. Mar 2018, at 19:13, ng0 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> remind me again: What exactly is in the way (besides us making relevant 
> changes in GNUnet)
> to make use of libwget2 as a successor to gnURL?
> Someone knew it and had just grumpy opinions on the wget.h ... but besides 
> "omg it is long",
> what can we do in cooperation with wget2 to get to a point where we can 
> embrace wget2?
> 
> We have this long standing ridiculous issue in Guix with curl and gnurl, and 
> if wget2 would
> just work and function differently than curl (CURL_CA_PATH is the issue) it 
> would be so much
> easier to finally get this integrated. "on first run download the hostlist" 
> "oh, excuse me
> we first have to crash into the wellknown kitchensink with curl/gnurl".
> I'd rather invest time in trying to get wget2 ready than to continue merging 
> from curl and
> having dependency on their problems (which are somewhat unique to the 
> Guix+GuixSD situation.
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