DCA> This isn't a bug, but the offer of a new feature. The timestamping DCA> feature doesn't quite work for us, as we don't keep just the latest DCA> view of a website and we don't want to copy all those files around for DCA> each update.
Which brings me to mention two features I've been meaning to suggest for ages. Probably it means changing some basic things in the core of wget, I don't know. I'm no programmer. Maybe it has been thought about already and was decided otherwise. But why does wget have to rename the last file it fetches when finding another one with the same name. Why isn't the previous file already there renamed to .1, .2 and so on if more files are present. IMO this would be a major advantage for mirroring sites with timestamping *and* keeping the old files (which may not be wanted to be discarded) *and* keep the links between newer and older unchanged files intact. Hm? The other thing more or less is ripped from the Windows DL-Manager FlashGet (but why not). Wouldn't it be useful if wget retrieves a file to a temporary "renamed" filename, for instance with the extension .wg! or something and renamed back to the original name after finishing? Two advantages IMO: First you can easily see at which point a download broke (so you don't have to look for a file by date or size or something in a whole lot of them). The other is the possibility to resume a broken download with the option -nc (so the already downloaded files aren't looked up again). Wget needn't check a lot and could determine by the file extension that this is the one file where it has to continue. Do I make sense? Sorry only raw ideas. -- Brix
