Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay... but I don't see the logic of: 1. If the system has POSIX's sigsetjmp, use that. 2. Otherwise, just assume it has the completely unportable, and not even BSDish, siggetmask. Are you sure siggetmask isn't BSD-ish? When I tested that code on

Re: %20 and spaces in a URL

2007-10-26 Thread Alan Wehmann
Fred Holmes fsh at cpcug.org writes: If I have a URL that has %20 in place of spaces, and I use the URL directly as the argument of WGET, it seems that the file is always not found. I've discovered that if I replace each %20 with a space, and put quotation marks around the entire URL, it

Re: %20 and spaces in a URL

2007-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alan Wehmann wrote: Fred Holmes fsh at cpcug.org writes: If I have a URL that has %20 in place of spaces, and I use the URL directly as the argument of WGET, it seems that the file is always not found. I've discovered that if I replace each

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Do you say that Tru64 lacks both sigsetjmp and siggetmask? Are you sure about that? That is the only system we are currently talking about. I find it hard to believe that Tru64 lacks both of those functions; for example, see

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know nothing of VMS. If it's sufficiently different from Unix that it has wildly different alarm/signal facilities, or no alarm/signal at all (as is the case with Windows), then it certainly makes sense for Wget to provide a VMS-specific

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Daniel Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is quite possible that the Autoconf test for sigsetjmp yields a false negative. I very much doubt it does, since we check for it in the curl configure script, Note that I didn't mean in general. Such bugs can sometimes show in one program or

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Do you say that Tru64 lacks both sigsetjmp and siggetmask? Are you sure about that? That is the only system we are currently talking about. I find it hard to believe that

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that curl provides the additional check for a macro version in the configure script, rather than in the source; we should probably do it that way as well. I'm not sure how that helps for this, though: if the above test is failing, then either it's a

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that curl provides the additional check for a macro version in the configure script, rather than in the source; we should probably do it that way as well. I'm not sure how that

Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 With talk of supporting multiple simultaneous connections in a next-generation version of Wget, various things have been tumbling around in my mind. First off is that I would not wish to do such a thing with threads. Threads introduce too many

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-26 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/26/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, of course, when I say there would be two Wgets, what I really mean by that is that the more exotic-featured one would be something else entirely than a Wget, and would have a separate name. I think the idea of having two Wgets is good. I