From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] wget2
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:57:53 +0000 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <767a8576-7fbd-c3de-9415-bae99b1d596d@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 20:05 [ITP] wget2 - modern fast parallel file and recursive website downloader Brian Inglis
2020-07-08 20:28 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-09 18:27 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-07-09 18:50 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-07-10 1:38 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-10 5:27 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-10-30 21:30 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-30 21:34 ` Eric Blake
2020-10-30 21:57 ` [ITA] wget Brian Inglis
2020-10-31 12:50 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-11-14 15:19 ` Achim Gratz
2020-11-14 22:15 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-15 7:36 ` ASSI
2020-11-15 17:32 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-16 17:23 ` Achim Gratz
2020-11-16 21:35 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-17 19:10 ` Achim Gratz
2020-11-17 23:23 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-18 14:23 ` ASSI
2020-11-10 5:29 ` [ITP] wget2 - please review if anyone has time Brian Inglis
2020-11-24 21:06 ` [ITP] wget2 Brian Inglis
2020-11-27 17:57 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]
2020-11-27 18:28 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-30 14:51 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-11-30 18:29 ` Achim Gratz
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