On 24/11/2020 21:06, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-07-08 14:05, Brian Inglis wrote: >> wget2 is the successor of wget supplying a shared library API like >> curl to >> build a modern, fast, multi-threaded, parallel downloader using >> HTTP/2, HTTP >> compression and If-Modified-Since headers; see: >> https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2 >> It is currently available on Arch, Debian/Ubuntu, openSUSE, >> Slackware; see: > > https://repology.org/project/wget2/versions > > Thanks for help getting here and also the upstream folks! > > Please review wget2 repackaged into subpackages available under: > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VVuC14KuB6uShm4FQL9BuXH0hpLYnIcJ?usp=sharing > > > Appveyor CI playground repo wget2 jobs: > > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=1308 > > I have been dogfooding wget2 instead of wget in commands and cron jobs > and it appears considerably faster, but does not support FTP or other > protocols supported by curl or wget, and does not support wget > --retr-symlinks=no option which retrieves symlink contents verbatim > for analysis with readlink e.g. wget ...-latest... and see if it > points to the previous or a newer version. > > For more compatibility info see: > > https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/wikis/home
I had a quick go on 32-bit Cygwin (figuring most people might try 64-bit), and it seems to work fine and be quite quick. I haven't compiled the package but I'll find time soon hopefully - it's small so I guess it doesn't take long. Hamish
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