Re: Intent to package snarf
At 04:36 -0800 1998-11-13, John Goerzen wrote:
>If you want to repackage snarf, I'd suggest two things:
>
>1. Check it out carefully. Try it with "Strange" URLs and see what happens.
I will construct some pathological test cases and try them. Sounds like fun
actually :)
>2. Check to see if it has new features since version 1.12 that other
> Debian packages do not.
wget and htget are the only two packages similar to it that I am aware of.
wget is more functional, but *much* bigger, and htget is smaller, but less
functional. The author has rewritten snarf from scratch with 2.0, even
saying that 1.x was very kludgy in the README.
>I'm not interested in packaging it anymore, so if you want to go ahead, feel
>free, but I should send you the original changelog and there should be a
>note about what happened to it.
Please do.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
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