On 11/2/07, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > 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). > > Perhaps both versions can include multi-threaded support in their core > version, but the lite version would never invoke multi-threading. > > Tony
Yes! Some features of current wget are doing their own sorta-multithreading and would be simplified by this approach and their modularity enhanced (e.g. the progress reporting has several options, which could become plug-ins) by this approach. Tony G -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch.
