Anthony Bryan wrote: > This is a neat patch, but IMHO it doesn't belong in the curl command line > client. It adds functionality that goes well beyond what curl is designed > for and the UNIX philosophy behind it: to do one thing and do it well, > which is to transfer individual URLs from/to individual sites > and to allow all manner of tweaking that behaviour. That's why it > doesn't do HTML parsing, remote URL globbing, recursive transfers, > PAC proxy configuration, etc. > > Metalink support is designed for something other than what curl's primary > mission is about. An indication of this is that of curl's 128 options, > half become irrelevant (and even more are marginally relevant) when doing > Metalink transfers. Adding two additional library dependencies to curl > is also an issue.
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