Re: [Bug-wget] Big refactoring

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think the maintainer is aware that Wget's code quality is poor, and
> would welcome sweeping architectural changes; I know I would have, when
> I was maintainer.

Just an idea... why not "fork" it, call it "wget-NG" (Next Generation
;), and develop it in parallel. When/if the "brand new, nifty, easier
to maintain, completelly cool design" next-generation turns out to be
as stable and a drop-in replacement for the older -and judged as such
by the community- then the community itself will switch to ´wget-ng´
(or ´wgetr2´), and at that point the old code base can stop being
maintained...

Again: just an idea.

And by the way, thanks for the  response Micah. I don´t want to know
who´s behind every email, as long as the FSF knows who it´s dealing
with. I wasn´t aware that paperwork was required. Then I guess it´s
OK.

I was just concerned since wget is too ubiquitous and becomes easy
target for nefarious sources to inject vulnerabilities into it...

Best regards,
FC
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