Gisle Vanem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most importanly and most requested is proably support for large > files. AFAICS this should be pretty easy.
I don't speak for Mauro, but the thing that made large file support hard for me is portability. Should Wget support systems without a 64-bit integer type? What about the systems where third-party compilers, such as GCC, support a `long long' type, but printf is unable to print it? Should we support 32-bit-only systems to an extent where it would at least be possible to correctly *show* the size of a 2G+ file and perhaps download parts of it? (This could be achieved by using `double' for representation.) What % sequence do we use for off_t? Do we even use off_t, given that it's always 32-bit on Windows? All of the above problems are possible to solve, but they are not easy, and they didn't seemed to be covered by the patches I'd had a chance to review.
