[Bug-wget] Cloning Wget2 (Was Re: ANN: Wget2 development shifting to GitLab)

[Avinash Sonawane]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:10 AM, L A Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:

> What's the point of a tar that needs online access?

While building, Wget2 fetches the latest current version of Gnulib
from Savannah. Bundling the Gnulib with Wget2 compressed archive might
get you a stale, outdated version of Gnulib. :)

> Looks like wget2 is "infected" with the gnulib virus.

No. Gnulib is a very cool library which keeps the code shared by many
GNU packages at one central location which helps to make the packages
more modular.

Additionally, Gnulib makes porting a package much easier and that's
how you can use Wget2 on Windows platform even if the primary dev
machines are Linux boxes. :)

> Hmmmm....this is not very easy to build...
>
> (sigh).

No. Building Wget2 is very easy. It just requires 4-5 commands. That's it!

Please take a look at "Building from git" section in the README.md[0].
And just remember to use https url to clone the repo if you don't want
to deal with SSH keys. I'm reiterating it here just for the
completeness sake:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git

[0] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/blob/master/README.md
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