[Bug-wget] Wget2 plans (Was Re: PATCH: tests for SSL)

[Vijo Cherian]

Some questions regarding the plans for wget2:

1, Is it expected to have some compatibility with wget? especially wrt
commandline options.
    Are we OK to (potentially) break some scripts that  depend on certain
behavior from wget?
2, Are there a list of target OSes that wget2 is supposed to run on?
3, What older servers do we care about, regarding compatibility?

Best,
Vijo.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Vijo,
>
> first of all, thank you very much for your great contribution !
>
> I review (and hopefully check in) your patch today.
>
> On 04/28/2017 02:42 AM, Vijo Cherian wrote:
> > Looking at wget2, there doesn't  seem to be any perl based tests there at
> > all.
> > Is there any decisions regarding test scripts that are planned for wget2?
> > Is it OK to "port" wget perl scripts to wget2?
>
> We definitely won't use Perl for Wget2. The tests are simple C programs,
> even easy to maintain for someone not so familiar with C.
> It's more the test content that matters (options for wget, files on the
> server, requests and responses).
>
> With Best Regards, Tim
>
>