Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-21 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I am greatly surprised. Do you really believe that Windows users >> outside an academic environment are proficient in using the compiler? >> I have never seen

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-21 Thread Doug Kaufman
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am greatly surprised. Do you really believe that Windows users > outside an academic environment are proficient in using the compiler? > I have never seen a home Windows installation that even contained a

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 02:42 pm, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:58 am, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > i totally agree with hrvoje here. in the worst case, we can add an > >> > ent

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:58 am, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > i totally agree with hrvoje here. in the worst case, we can add an >> > entry in the FAQ explaining how to compile wget with those buggy >> >

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 05:55 am, Herold Heiko wrote: > (sorry for the late answer, three days of 16+ hours/day migration aren't > fun, UPS battery exploding inside the UPS almost in my face even less) > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Her

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:58 am, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i totally agree with hrvoje here. in the worst case, we can add an > > entry in the FAQ explaining how to compile wget with those buggy > > versions of microsoft cc. > > Umm. What FAQ? :-)

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From my impressions of the Windows world, non-developers won't touch >> source code anyway -- they will simply use the binary. > > I feel I must dissent. I am greatly surprised. Do you really believe that Windows users outside an academic environment a

RE: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Herold Heiko
(sorry for the late answer, three days of 16+ hours/day migration aren't fun, UPS battery exploding inside the UPS almost in my face even less) > -Original Message- > From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > do have a compiler but ar

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i totally agree with hrvoje here. in the worst case, we can add an > entry in the FAQ explaining how to compile wget with those buggy > versions of microsoft cc. Umm. What FAQ? :-)

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-19 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Friday 15 April 2005 07:24 am, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However there are still lots of people using Windows NT 4 or even > > win95/win98, with old compilers, where the compilation won't work > > without the patch. Even if we place a comment in the sou

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-15 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However there are still lots of people using Windows NT 4 or even > win95/win98, with old compilers, where the compilation won't work > without the patch. Even if we place a comment in the source file or > the windows/Readme many of those will be discour

RE: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-15 Thread Herold Heiko
> From: Mauro Tortonesi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > the patch you've posted is really such an ugly workaround > (shame on microsoft Exactly the same opinion here. Please don't misunderstand me, personally for most of my work on windows I use cygnus (including wget) anyway. However there are sti

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-14 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 07:39 am, Herold Heiko wrote: > With MS Visual Studio 6 still needs attached patch in order to compile > (disable optimization for part of http.c and retr.c if cl.exe version > <=12). > > Windows msvc test binary at http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ hi herold, the patc

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-14 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> If possible, it seems preferable to me to use the platform's C >> library regex support rather than make wget dependent on another >> library... > > Note that some platforms don't have library support for regexps, so > we'd

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-13 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If possible, it seems preferable to me to use the platform's C > library regex support rather than make wget dependent on another > library... Note that some platforms don't have library support for regexps, so we'd have to bundle anyway.

Re: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-13 Thread TPCnospam
> Tobias Tiederle's regex patch: > > regex is a very nice feature which i am planning to include in a future > release of wget (hopefully 1.11). but, since wget supports so many platforms, > we have to come up with a portable implementation of regex and i don't know > yet if from this point of

RE: wget 1.10 alpha 2

2005-04-13 Thread Herold Heiko
With MS Visual Studio 6 still needs attached patch in order to compile (disable optimization for part of http.c and retr.c if cl.exe version <=12). Windows msvc test binary at http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL