On Sunday 04 November 2007 22:54:24 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian Roche has submitted a revised version of a patch to modify > > the unique-name-finding algorithm to generate names in the pattern > > "foo-n.html" rather than "foo.html.n". The patch looks good, and > > will likely go in very soon. > > foo.html.n has the advantage of simplicity: you can tell at a glance > that <foo>.n is a duplicate of <foo>. Also, it is trivial to remove > the unwanted files by removing <foo>.*. Why change what worked so > well in the past?
i totally agree with hrvoje here. also note that changing wget unique-name-finding algorithm can potentially break lots of wget-based scripts out there. i think we should leave these kind of changes for wget2 - or wget-on-steroids or however you want to call it ;-) -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
