Daniel Stenberg wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Hack Kampbj�rn wrote: > > > Well, Daniel Stenberg maybe you should try to get your cURL > > implementation accepted. > > AFAIK, there's no one around to "accept" any fixes or contributions right
Well, you got my point 8-) > now. I've even emailed Hrvoje with my own views, that he should open up the > CVS to let more people have write access. I'd suggest that we cough up a few > people that would be willing to shoulder that responsibility and that they > get in touch with Hrvoje to sort things out. I'm not talking mutiny, I'm > talking joining up behind the team leader, showing and offering support. Well, is somebody qualified to and interested in, actively mantaining wget. As you say a fork should not be necessary, Hrvoje is surely interested in a well mantained wget. Last time Dan succeeded in tracking him down and becoming a mantainer. It should be possible again if somebody is interested in the job. Hopefully there would be more than three committers so it's more protected against changing work situations. > > Anyway, if I would write down a patch for this, would the -T timeout value be > the one to use even for connects? "set the read timeout to SECONDS" doesn't > quite sound like what we want here, we want a "set the connect timeout to > SECONDS"... but would we want to introduce yet another option? > > > It's bad when other packages maintainers are more active on the list that > > Wget's 8-( > > The fact that I maintain curl, or that I am active here too is really not the > problem. The problem here is the lack of a Hrvoje stand-in. Sorry, I didn't mean it's bad that you're active here. Your experience implementing similar functionality in curl is really appreciated > > I'm active in numerous other free/open projects as well. Now, that you say it, I've seen your 'unix is cool' signature somewhere else too 8-) > > -- > Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77 > ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Hack Kampbj�rn
