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This is probably in the news since Fedora 40 announced to replace wget with wget2, removing WARC support. I've also looked yesterday what I will be missing, and
by rurban 3y ago
This is probably in the news since Fedora 40 announced to replace wget with wget2, removing WARC support. I've also looked yesterday what I will be missing, and decided I will not miss it. FTP on the other hand was very handy, and actually used in a lot of places
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-proposal-wget2-as-wget/96422/2 https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-proposal-w...
- infogulch 3y agoInterestingly wget2 was made by the same guy that maintains the original wget. I'm curious about the motivation. From the announcement: > The major benefit of switching to wget2 is leveraging the cleaner codebase that leverages modern practices for development and maintainability, including unit tests and fuzzing as a security-sensitive component. Users will also see better support for newer protocols over time as they are more easily and quickly plumbed into wget2 than wget. wget2 appears to be written in C. Notably WARC support is in the todo.txt