so, quite exciting news on the curl front... Tatsuhiro has revived his 3 year old patch & it's very nice to be able to use metalink with curl!
the discussion is happening on the curl-users list, & I don't think it will make it into the next version, but hopefully the one after that. curl's metalink support uses libmetalink, which Tatsuhiro has just applied a few fixes to. I'm thinking it might be good to have meta4/RFC 5854 support in libmetalink soon too On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Tatsuhiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Good news! > > Daniel Stenberg wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote: >> >> I would like to play around with this patch and functionality a bit, but I >> have an initial request: >> >> I'd like this patch to have as low impact as possible on the existing code >> so I would really like to see perhaps a separate file added with the >> necessary metalink support functions or similar, so that all devs and users >> who don't care for metalink wouldn't have to see many traces of it. >> > > OK. In my first patch, all metalink functions were integrated in > main.c. I'll make new patch that call metalink function in another > file after options are parsed. > > Best regards, > > Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa > > > On 2月6日, 午前1:19, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> good news? >> >> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:10:15 +0100 (CET) >> From: Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Patch for Metalink Support >> To: the curl tool <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII >> >> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote: >> > I made a patch to add very basic Metalink support to curl command-line >> > tool. >> > The patch is made against curl-7.19.2. Although the patch is still rather >> > experimental, it provides basic fail over functionality. >> >> I would like to play around with this patch and functionality a bit, but I >> have an initial request: >> >> I'd like this patch to have as low impact as possible on the existing code so >> I would really like to see perhaps a separate file added with the necessary >> metalink support functions or similar, so that all devs and users who don't >> care for metalink wouldn't have to see many traces of it. >> >> -- >> >> / daniel.haxx.se >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Tatsuhiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hmm, maybe other curl devs have not yet shared the idea about Metalink >> > with Daniel. >> >> > On 12月17日, 午前2:22, "Anthony Bryan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Nicolas Alvarez >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > 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. >> >> >> > Can I say "I told you so" or will I get flamed? >> >> >> no flames :) >> >> >> it's kinda confusing when Daniel, curl author, writes >> >> >> "The Metalink guys host a list of project ideas and one of those ideas >> >> is to add metalink support to curl, and I recently bumped the stakes a >> >> bit by raising the bounty with an additional 200 USD so that the offer >> >> is now 500 USD for the person or team that brings the feature as >> >> described. >> >> >> My primary motivation for doing this is that I like the metalink idea >> >> and I'd like to help making sure it gets used more widely." >> >> >>http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/11/09/metalink-in-curl-bounty/ >> >> >> -- >> >> (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [http://www.metalinker.org] >> >> )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads >> >> -- >> (( Anthony Bryan ... 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