Hi folks,
The curl project has adopted wcurl - a simple download wrapper shell script that
makes it easy to do what wget2 does using curl, setting output defaults, names,
timestamps, downloading in parallel, etc.
https://github.com/curl/wcurl
It is available under Alpine, Arch, Homebrew, Mac, Msys2, NetBSD, and a couple
of others so far:
https://repology.org/project/wcurl/versions
It consists of a shell script wcurl, man page wcurl.1, README.md, LICENSE,
LICENSES/curl.txt, and tests/test.sh.
As curl maintainer, I question whether this should be packaged separately,
or just included in the curl package, with the sources downloaded into a
subdirectory from git with a download hook, and installed from there?
The latter is done in playground:
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=git/cygwin-packages/curl.git;a=commitdiff;h=playground
build:
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=curl&id=8864
log:
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/10609422666/job/29405185296
The local build is on make check, and scallywag is still building the package.
Any advice and comments on best approaches to this would be appreciated.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
