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

[Darshit Shah]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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?
>

Wait, older versions will always fail on such a wgetrc file. It was a half
baked idea that I proposed. Scratch that.


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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah