Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Regression since wget 1.10: no_prefix function is *bad*

[Ángel González]

On 12/05/13 21:50, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> A real solution would be a rewrite of the init stuff (I saw that already 
> somewhere on the Wget 2.0 wish list or somewhere - don't remeber exactly).
>
> I already wrote this kind of code and would contribute it to Wget.
> But i am unshure how to apply it to Wget. Since it would be a pretty big 
> change, should i git-clone Wget and you merge later or do you create a new 
> branch or ...
>
> Ah, than we again have to discuss that infamous c89/c99 thing.
> AFAIR, the main argument against c99 came from Daniel Stenberg (Curl, 
> haxx.se) 
> who mentioned MS Visual C not being C99 ready (it will never be, said MS).
> I just saw that Debian has MinGW cross compiler packets for Win32 and Win64 
> with gcc 4.6, but I have no experience with those.
> Does anybody know if that is a real alternative to MS VC ?
>
> Regards, Tim
Yes, it is a real alternative as a compiler which works :)
However, I'm not sure how much does wget compile natively in win32 in
right now,
either with VC++ or gcc, mostly due to autoconf and gnulib detection.