[wget-notify] [bug #20484] Should wget attempt to do conversions when interrupted (Control-C)?

[Micah Cowan]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #20484 (project wget):

> Because of their unreliability, I think using signals to modify
> wget's behaviour and configuration on the fly is a very bad idea.

In what way are signals unreliable? Using interrupt signals to halt whatever
a program is doing, and bring up a command prompt is not exactly unusual
(though typically, whatever the program was doing previously is abandoned).

> I think we should consider a dynamic language for plugins. Ruby
> would be my first choice, but Python is an excellent alternative.

I see no reason why it couldn't be both, plus Perl and whatever else. We just
provide the API, and the rest is just glue.

I'm not sure how plugins would help with dynamic, interactive
reconfiguration, though. 

> As Micah says, having interactive console would also be great.
> Maybe that could be implemented with a plugin as well.

Actually, that was Tony's idea :)

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