the latest collection of patches is available at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2012-05/0018.html in http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2012-05/att-0018/metalink-patch.tar.bz2
please try it out! On Sunday, April 29, 2012 3:39:54 AM UTC-4, Anthony Bryan wrote: > > 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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