Re: [Bug-wget] contributing to wget

[address@hidden]

Thanks for the encouragement! I've attached a patch which should tell
the user there is a problem with the system wgetrc file and exit. Seems
suspiciously simple, can anyone spot any problems with it? 

Reza Snowdon

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 19:58 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 03:23 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I'm interested in contributing to wget, I spotted the wgetrc
> > (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20370) problem and thought this could be
> > a good starting point, however, when viewing the code it seems as
> > thought this is not an issue any more. Is the savannah page kept up to
> > date? I'd like some suggestion regarding which smaller problems could be
> > good to pursue for someone who isn't too familiar with the code base
> > (but hopes to be eventually :)). 
> 
> It's generally kept up-to-date, but mistakes do happen. However, from my
> reading of the current code, it's still an issue: we save away the
> results of running the system wgetrc, but always attempt to parse the
> user wgetrc even if we already know the system wgetrc failed.
> 
> This should be a very, very simple thing to fix, and small enough that
> you shouldn't have to sign papers for it. Sounds like a great place to
> start!
>

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