-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Daniel Stenberg wrote: > I guess I'm not the man to ask nor comment this a lot, but look what I > found: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01129.html > > I've always thought and I still believe that wget's power and most > appreciated abilities are in the features it adds on top of the > transfer, like HTML parsing, ftp list parsing and the other things you > mentioned.
Of course, in this case, we'd be talking more about linking with libcurl for Wget2, rather than incorporating it, so we wouldn't have to worry about copyright disclaimers. Besides which, according to the maintainers document, we only need to get those for files that do not include a license statement. > Of course, going one single unified transfer library is perhaps not the > best thing from a software eco-system perspective, as competition tends > to drive innovation and development, but the more users of a free > software/open source project we get the better it will become. Well, in the first place, ours isn't a library, so for the most part it isn't really usable by other folks. :) And there's still libwww from the W3C, at least (and probably others). Besides, the great thing about the _free_ software eco-system, is that even when there is only a single, unified library, as long as it is free it can easily be forked to move in a new direction to meet differing requirements. :) - -- 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 iD8DBQFHKAQ47M8hyUobTrERCNZgAJ4rsG9ZlZuoHmvZBssE5oPGKY6yOACfRkc0 HEKiQEEbbs9IZWg3AwfyNII= =kiF5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
