> Max, > > No, I don't think cURL does recursive retrieval. I don't think it does > Web page dependency retrieval, either. Both of these are a big deal for > me. How could a tool of wget's versatility be replaced by something > inferior? Whatever happened to technological meritocracy? (Please, no > laughing.) > > I was actually hoping to get some time to work on an extension to wget > of my own. I wanted to add an option that would cause wget to look in > one hierarchy to determine file existence and modification times > relative to the set of files and mod times on the server and download > new or newer files to a different location. That way I can easily > maintain mirror copies on a CD-ROM. I'd tell wget to use the CD's > contents as the file and mod-time reference and to download to a > location on my hard drive (of course). Then I could incrementally > update the ROM with whatever was downloaded.
That's a real good idea! :-) > Of course I can still do that and I may yet. Does that sound like a > desirable feature to anyone? I don't know how many people share my > mania for keeping local archives of content from the Internet. I seem to end-up doing this quite a lot when on a hunt for new concepts and ways of doing things. A 'uge web suck, most stuff I never glance a quarter of my eye over, and I got a whole archive of stuff where i can just grep out the crap. > What happens to an open source project when it devolves to this state? > Who, for example, could hand out writable access to the wget CVS > repository? Surely this isn't an unrecoverable state of affairs, is it? > > Randall Schulz Wasn't a patch applied to CVS HEAD of the wget repos only a few weeks ago. Thats what it looks like anyway. Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
