Re: [Bug-wget] QuickStart tutorial

[Rahul Prasad]

2010/10/15 Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>

> Rahul Prasad <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > What if someone does not know Shell Script ?
> > Scripting is not a feature of Wget, Its a feature of Shell. I want to
> > add this feature to wget so that end users wont have to write script.
>
> The user can learn how write a basic shell script.
>

So, you mean we should remove all the features which can be achieved by
scripting.


>
> IMO, it is a bad idea to bring this logic inside wget.  It seems much
> work and without any real advantage.  Also, scripting is a more generic
> solution as you can use it with any cli program; so if the user needs to
> learn something new, better to learn something that can be useful in
> other situations as well.
>
>
Why do you want to impose something on end user.
It should be an end-user's decision to choose whether or even what he wants
to learn.

I totally disagree with you. A good software should always consider its
end-users a novice.

Sometimes in order to make our linux user community more "knowledgeable" or
"advance" we forget that most people don't want to learn technical stuff.