This is very sad, because I'm really hoping Metalink will become a wider
standard. (Look it up on Wikipedia if you're not familiar with it.)
cURL and Wget will support it /eventually/, but something else is needed
in the meantime. None of the major Metalink clients are easy for a
relative noob like me to install manually:
* aria2 version 1.10.3 ("stable") won't compile under OpenBSD 4.7 stable
(see http://pastebin.com/Bw7RFSgA). I found a post on this mailing
list from 2006, subject "NEW: net/aria2 (0.9.0)", but that port is no
longer there, and the old binary doesn't work.
* wxDownload Fast (aka wxdfast) version 0.6.0 wouldn't compile either
(see http://pastebin.com/s0ErUpaW). I have wxWidgets-gtk2-2.8.10p0
installed via pkg_add.
* mulk 0.5.1 `./configure` dies with "cannot compile without libcurl",
even though I have curl installed from ports (and there is no libcurl
port). Don't have the time to figure this out right now.
* CPAN doesn't have anything related to metalink. Pylibmetalink 0.1.1
didn't install via easy_install-2.5 or manually, even after I tweaked
setup.py to remove '-Wextra' (see http://pastebin.com/6CfiXAVb). The
Python library at http://sourceforge.net/projects/metalinks seems OK.
* I didn't yet try any of the Qt (KGet), XUL (FlashGot, DownThemAll),
emulated (Wine), or Java-based (Phex, Retriever, JDownloader), clients
because I need something light. I also didn't yet try "(pre)alpha"
clients like Gget, Celerius, and Snappy. There's a complete list at:
http://metalinker.org/implementation.html
Am I doing something wrong? Is anyone working on porting any of those?
Best regards,
Alex Libman
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