i want to add some stuff to apps/netutils/webclient. for example, * ability to report http status to the caller * ability to add some request headers * put * other content-type for post * tls a question: how much api stability is expected for this?
Of course we would like the code to be stable in the sense that it continues to behave correctly; I assume that you would carefully verify new features. But I think by stable you are referring to a fixed API. I don't think that is necessary either. This is not a standard interface and it is not even documented. People using non-standard, undocumented interfaces need to accept that they are subject to change without notice.
A good explanation in comments of how to get legacy behavior I think is sufficient. Do other people agree with that?
can i just add extra arguments to wget() etc? or should i keep wget() intact and introduce a new set of symbols?
I don't see any problems with extending wget(). We should do that wisely. Perhaps it would be better if wget took a structure as an argument rather than a long, long parameter list. I would personally prefer to see one wget() rather than the old wget() with a new wget2() which is the same but with different parameters.
All current usage of wget() should be modified to use any changes that you make to the interface. I find only examples/wget/ and nshlib/. Is that everything?
