Re: [Bug-wget] warning about unknown .wgetrc directives

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

>     Unless we add something like --ignore-wgetrc-errors...
> I think that's over-engineering the problem.
>
> Some time ago, Tim, if I remember correctly proposed using version
> lines. So, newer commands can be marked as valid under a certain
> version only. The whole scheme can be made backward compatible by
> assuming the lack of a version line to imply the current version.

how would that prevent that wget should not ignore certain directives?
An older wget doesn't know how to deal with newer directives, what other
alternatives beside fail/ignore do we have?

Regards,
Giuseppe