Package Details: wget2-git v2.1.0.r81.gbb3199fd-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/wget2-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: wget2-git
Description: Updated version of popular Wget tool
Upstream URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
Keywords: download gnu network wget
Licenses: GPL-3.0-or-later
Conflicts: wget2
Provides: wget2
Submitter: darnir
Maintainer: darnir
Last Packager: darnir
Votes: 3
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2016-02-03 21:03 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-30 12:33 (UTC)

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darnir commented on 2016-03-07 09:29 (UTC)

A good place to read about it is the official README file at: https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2 For a tl;dr version, it provides a libwget library, is a significantly cleaned up version of Wget's code base and implements multiple features like HTTP/2, full metalink support and gzip encoding which are not available in Wget. The tool is also written by the maintainers of Wget, and as soon as a stable version of Wget2 is released Wget will go into a bug-fix only stage. Already, the developers are not keen on adding many new features to Wget, and spending time improving Wget2 for its first stable release.

d72 commented on 2016-03-07 09:17 (UTC)

In what ways is it updated? Why should I use it rather than the normal wget package?

darnir commented on 2016-02-04 07:05 (UTC)

For the latest version of of Wget, you should consider using wget-git which is also available on AUR. Wget2-git should be considered as a beta software as it does not have any official releases yet. Though yes, I do plan to update the pkgbuild with HTTP/2 support soon.

glitsj16 commented on 2016-02-04 06:30 (UTC)

Thanks for adding this to the AUR, especially since wget in extra has been flagged out of date for a while now. Would you consider adding nghttp2 to optdepends for HTTP/2 support?

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