-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: > Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... > > Great ideas Micah! :-) > > On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a "clever" way to get > by with 1. Put the "optional" functionality into separate > run-time loadable files. SGI's Unix (and MS Windows) do this. > The "small wget" then checks to see which libraries are > "accessible" -- those that aren't simply mean the features > for those libs are disabled. In a way, it's like how > 'vim' can optionally load perllib or python-lib at runtime > (at least under windows) if they are present. If they are > not present, those features are disabled. Too bad linux > didn't take this route with its libraries (have asked, > it is possible, but there's no "framework" for it, and > that might need work as well.
I'm not sure what you mean about the linux thing; there are many instances of runtime loadable modules on Linux. dlopen() and friends are the standard way of doing this on any Unix kernel flavor. Keeping a single Wget and using runtime libraries (which we were terming "plugins") was actually the original concept (there's mention of this in the first post of this thread, actually); the issue is that there are core bits of functionality (such as the multi-stream support) that are too intrinsic to separate into loadable modules, and that, to be done properly (and with a minimum of maintenance commitment) would also depend on other libraries (that is, doing asynchronous I/O wouldn't technically require the use of other libraries, but it can be a lot of work to do efficiently and portably across OSses, and there are already Free libraries to do that for us). - -- 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 iD8DBQFHKo867M8hyUobTrERCBxGAJ44coJN48fRGhORfYv+uN2J6RVz7gCePxva UYeGYTW0sfY+QRcGkpSB9Ls= =wOVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
