-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tony Godshall wrote: > ... >> At the release of Wget 1.11, it is my intention to try to attract as >> much developer interest as possible. At the moment, and despite Wget's >> pervasive presence, it has virtually no user or developer community. >> Given the amount of work that needs to be done, this is not good. The >> announcement of the first new release of GNU Wget in two years seems a >> great opportunity to solicit help! > ... > > That's sort of the nature of older tools with a well-defined mission- > they do their > job so well there's little itch to tweak them. If it ain't broken, > you don't fix it. > Freshmeat lists wget as "mature", which basically means the same thing.
Yeah, I imagine that's it. Except that Wget _is_ broken in several important ways... but I think it works for the vast majority of users. In particular, I think the most widespread use of Wget is for fetching single files, which Wget seldom has any problems doing. It's when you try tricky things that Wget can sometimes break your expectations. Even so, of course, I have rarely if ever run into problems using it, personally. > I guess wget will have to get a bit immature to get some buzz going. Some > pretty insane goals in a wget2 roadmap would probably do the trick. How > about announcing plans implement DHT and make bittorrent obsolete? That > should make slashdot ;-) I dunno, man, I think our current wget2 roadmap goals are already pretty wild-and-crazy. ;) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHT2ni7M8hyUobTrERAvh2AJ4hEcCzAF5vdpuflFJ1P7GyzPzjxgCfeaHh /GVTxx+vFcm9PcE3a8P21qM= =Hkhj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
