"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's easy to forget to write NEWS file entries for significant
> user-visible changes. I just created the 1.7-dev section and added
> the significant user-visible stuff that I could think of.
So did I, only I forgot to check it in. Doh!
> I've sent this to wget rather than wget-patches to get more eyeballs
> on it, and to recommend that people writing patches that implement
> significant user-visible stuff also write a NEWS item. I'll update
> the web page to say this as well. Always better to update NEWS as
> news is being made, rather than relying on memory later.
A good way of updating NEWS "a posteriori" is to use the ChangeLog.
I've done that in XEmacs.
After resolving the conflicts, here is a diff:
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/anoncvs/wget/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 NEWS
--- NEWS 2001/01/16 00:50:00 1.13
+++ NEWS 2001/01/16 09:22:54
@@ -7,23 +7,40 @@
* Changes in Wget 1.7-dev
-** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in puts you in
-some directory other than '/'.
+** Wget can now recognize FTP directory listings from some non-Unix
+servers. Currently Windows NT is supported.
+** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
+puts you in some directory other than '/'.
+
** "Keep-Alive" connections are now supported.
+
+** https URLs (SSL) are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL.
-** https URLs are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL.
+** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
+reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
+are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
+skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
+also more general.
** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
+
+** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
+where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
+large sites (thousands of documents).
+
+** Wget now mmaps the files it needs to read instead of allocating
+heap memory to read them.
+
* Changes in Wget 1.6
** Administrative changes.
*** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
-Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a real job
-as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both are being helped by
-many other people.
+Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
+real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
+are being helped by many other people.
*** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
Take a look at:
