Re: [Bug-wget] [RFC] Extend concurrency support

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> writes:

> most of this is already solved in https://github.com/rockdaboot/mget which 
> was 
> originally thought as a 'modern' Wget. I would like to see Mget and Wget 
> merge 
> into something like 'Wget2'. At least, feel free to move code from Mget into 
> Wget as you wish (I am the author and copyright holder of Mget, both projects 
> have the same license).

I'm afraid that Jure can't copy any existing code for his Summer of Code
of project but reinvent the wheel if needed...

>
> History...
> I have been at the same point as you some years ago. And after looking at 
> Wget 
> I found Wget's code has to be redesigned. I had two choices: struggling with 
> grown code or restart from scratch. I did the second because I didn't see a 
> chance to get huge code changes into Wget. Either you have to discuss every 
> little change or you end up with your own code branch, which might become 
> integrated into master during the next few years.
>
> It has been asked many times and I do it again: shouldn't we start with Wget2 
> development, maybe having Jure as "project leader" (if you want). I made a 
> start with Mget (e.g. consequently putting reusable code into a library)... 
> and I would spend some time helping to merge Mget and Wget.
> Due to the library based character of Mget, I shouldn't be too hard.

...but on the long term we can avoid that task and re-use existing
wheels.  Not sure what other people think about it, but I think wget2,
whatever it will be, should be based on libcurl and focus the wget
development on what wget does better, eg recursive downloads.

Daniel will probably agree with me :-)

Regards,
Giuseppe