On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> I requested furl because I think it is much easier to use than the
> alternates.
> I know other programs does simular tasks, but furl formates the outbut
> better.
> Also, it does not require any deeper knowledge to get it working.
>
>
Russ Allbery writes
Jonathan Wiltshire writes:
What does furl do that other packages can't? We already have curl, lynx,
wget and even telnet can be used to dump headers. Can you justify having
this package in the archive?
Also, HEAD from the libwww-perl package, which is designed for exactly
t
> You could still use your package yourself (dpkg -i <.deb>)
Yeah actually I put some of the packages I do on my PPA (launchpad)
so anyone can access it. So I've put this one too.
> Next time it is wise to retitle your chosen RFP into an ITP
I also did that too, I changed it back to RFP before
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:03:36AM -0500, Weboide wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your replies, this helped me understand more about
> the maintainer job. I will pay more attention to total duplicate
> programs before maintaining them.
> I'll stop maintaining furl.
If it's much consolation your packa
Thanks everyone for your replies, this helped me understand more about
the maintainer job. I will pay more attention to total duplicate
programs before maintaining them.
I'll stop maintaining furl.
Thanks again.
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Weboide (Arnaud Soyez)
[Using: Linux ~ Ubuntu 8.10]
Launchpad page: https:
Thanks for replying this quick.
I chose to package this because this was a RFP and it was a small and
useful tool for getting HTTP headers, and doesn't use many libraries. I
agree that some other programs do the same thing and surely more than
that.
What do you suggest? Should I stop working on i
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