Add wcurl in Rust

To have a compiled binary free of dependancies

Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin <[email protected]>

Author: ericcurtin

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: 'REUSE check'
         run: |
           source ~/venv/bin/activate
+          rm wcurl-rs/Cargo.lock
           reuse lint
 
       - name: Run zizmor

tests/tests.sh

@@ -28,7 +28,13 @@
 
 ROOTDIR=$(CDPATH=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "$0")/.." && pwd))
 readonly ROOTDIR
-export PATH="${ROOTDIR}:${PATH}"
+
+# Determine which binary to use
+if [ -x "${ROOTDIR}/wcurl-rs/target/release/wcurl" ]; then
+    export PATH="${ROOTDIR}/wcurl-rs/target/release:${PATH}"
+else
+    export PATH="${ROOTDIR}:${PATH}"
+fi
 
 readonly WCURL_CMD="wcurl --dry-run "
 

wcurl-rs/Cargo.lock

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Eric Curtin <[email protected]>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
+
+[package]
+name = "wcurl"
+version = "2025.11.4"
+edition = "2021"
+description = "A simple wrapper around curl to easily download files"
+license = "curl"
+authors = [
+    "Eric Curtin <[email protected]>"
+]
+
+[dependencies]
+clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive", "std"], default-features = false }
+percent-encoding = "2.0"
+
+# Using a minimal URL parsing alternative to reduce dependencies
+# We'll implement basic URL parsing manually where needed to avoid the heavy url crate
+
+[profile.release]
+lto = true
+codegen-units = 1
+strip = true
+panic = "abort"
+opt-level = "s"  # Optimize for size
+debug = false