-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: > On 10/11/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Tony Godshall wrote: >>> On 10/10/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> My current impression is that this is a useful addition for some limited >>>> scenarios, but not particularly more useful than --limit-rate already >>>> is. That's part of what makes it a good candidate as a plugin. >>> I guess I don't see how picking a reasonable rate automatically is >>> less useful then having to know what the maximum upstream bandwidth is >>> ahead of time. >> I never claimed it was less useful. In fact, I said it was more useful. >> My doubt is as to whether it is _significantly_ more useful. > > For me, yes. For you, apparently not. It's a small patch, really. > Did you even look at it?
I have, yes. And yes, it's a very small patch. The issue isn't so much about the extra code or code maintenance; it's more about extra documentation, and avoiding too much clutter of documentation and lists of options/rc-commands. I'm not very picky about adding little improvements to Wget; I'm a little pickier about adding new options. It's not really about this option, it's about a class of options. I'm in the unenviable position of having to determine whether small patches that add options are sufficiently useful to justify the addition of the option. Adding one new option/rc command is not a problem. But when, over time, fifty people suggest little patches that offer options with small benefits, we've suddenly got fifty new options cluttering up the documentation and --help output. If the benefits are such that only a handful of people will ever use any of them, then they may not have been worth the addition, and I'm probably not doing my job properly. Particularly since a plugin architecture is planned, it seems ideal to me to recommend that such things be implemented as plugins at that point. In the meantime, people who find the feature sufficiently useful can easily apply the patch to Wget themselves (that's part of what makes Free Software great!), and even offer patched binaries up if there's call for it. If a number of people bother to download and install the patch, or fetch patched binaries in preference to the "official" binaries, that'd be a good indicator that it's worth pulling in. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDsBj7M8hyUobTrERCIMPAJ9z936EGkfx7b/1sKAt3zw6OcPMIgCaAi2Y qtNxSlmy09JSvtaWgZ42M7o= =iRGw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
