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“or now you can just use wcurl :)”

Sadly I can’t since it is dependent upon the util-linux version of getopt which means it fails on bsd and macOS systems. Understandable since it is always available on the specific target the script was written for and it does make life easier.

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argh, we are looking into fixing that now.

I knew getopt was linux-specific but I thoughts the only impact was that the long form argument (--opt) would not work. I turns out it doesn't run at all instead.

We should be able to fix this within the next few days, thank you!

> We should be able to fix this within the next few days, thank you!

It's fixed now, should work in non-linux environments.

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