[ITP?] wcurl - simple download wrapper

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Thu Aug 29 06:04:55 GMT 2024


Hi folks,

The curl project has adopted wcurl - a simple download wrapper shell script that 
makes it easy to do what wget2 does using curl, setting output defaults, names, 
timestamps, downloading in parallel, etc.

	https://github.com/curl/wcurl

It is available under Alpine, Arch, Homebrew, Mac, Msys2, NetBSD, and a couple 
of others so far:

	https://repology.org/project/wcurl/versions

It consists of a shell script wcurl, man page wcurl.1, README.md, LICENSE, 
LICENSES/curl.txt, and tests/test.sh.

As curl maintainer, I question whether this should be packaged separately,
or just included in the curl package, with the sources downloaded into a 
subdirectory from git with a download hook, and installed from there?

The latter is done in playground:

https://cygwin.com/git/?p=git/cygwin-packages/curl.git;a=commitdiff;h=playground

build:

	https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=curl&id=8864

log:

https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/10609422666/job/29405185296

The local build is on make check, and scallywag is still building the package.

Any advice and comments on best approaches to this would be appreciated.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
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