On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:06:59PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Martin, thanks for the patch and the detailed report. Note that it > might have made more sense to apply the patch to the latest CVS > version, which is somewhat different from 1.8.2.
What must I set CVSROOT to? > I'm really not sure whether to add this patch. On the one hand, it's > nice to support as many architectures as possible. But on the other > hand, most systems are ASCII. All the systems I've ever seen or > worked on have been ASCII. Right; that is exactly what makes it so hard for those who must work on EBCDIC systems: nobody supports them, and most available software is proprietary. So, getting a patch (even if only distributed as-is, e.g., in contrib/ebcdic.patch) is a valuable help for those who don't have it (yet). > I am fairly certain that I would not be > able to support EBCDIC in the long run and that, unless someone were > to continually support EBCDIC, the existing support would bitrot away. > > Is anyone on the Wget list using an EBCDIC system? How can they if they don't have the patch? It only works if the socket "talks ASCII" on the network, and that is what the patch solves ;-) Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fujitsu Siemens Fon: +49-89-636-46021, FAX: +49-89-636-47655 | 81730 Munich, Germany
