"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, it wouldn't be very tough for them to adjust their archives by
> moving the hostname directories into "ftp" or "http" directories.
> Or else use the option that makes it leave off the protocol.
>
> As long as we document the change clearly, it doesn't seem that bad
> to me. To me being destructive to files when FTP and WWW servers
> are run on the same machine is a worse evil than temporarily
> confusing some people who don't read the documentation when
> upgrading to Wget 1.7 from an older version.
It's not that someone wouldn't be aware of the change, but that they
would view the change as gratuitous. I know I would. Wget has been
behaving like this since day 1, and we should have a very compelling
reason for changing the default.
> > I had different thoughts: I would like have liked to not include
> > the host name by default, since hosts are not traversed by default
> > anyway.
>
> And only create the hostname directories when -H is specified?
> Yuck.
``Yuck'' is in the eye of the beholder.
