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