Re: [Bug-wget] WARC output

[Gijs van Tulder]

Giuseppe Scrivano writes:

>> The implementation makes use of the open source WARC Tools library
>> (Apache License 2.0):
>>   http://code.google.com/p/warc-tools/
>
> how much code is really needed from that library?  I wonder if we can
> avoid this dependency at all.

The library comes with some utilities, an HTTrack plugin, a Java module 
etc. These extra things are not needed for Wget. But of the C library, I 
used pretty much everything. The library handles all the WARC writing 
stuff. It can also read WARCs, but that's not needed here.

Rough estimate: 12.000 lines of code (excluding comments).

It's probably important to note that I have changed a few small things 
in the warc-tools library. (I have records in Git.)


As for the other dependencies:
- I used an MIT-licenced base32 encoder (there seems to be no such
  module in Gnulib), but that's quite small so could be replaced;
- it links to the UUID library.


> Can you please track all contributors?  Any contribution to GNU wget
> requires copyright assigments to the FSF.

Yes, it's all in the Git history, so it's easy to make a list. (There's 
only one other contributor of code, others helped with testing.)

> In the meanwhile, can you check if you are following the GNU Coding
> Standards for the new code?

I tried to do that. So except for the warc-tools library, which uses a 
different standard, all new code follows the GNU standards (I hope).

Thanks,

Gijs