2016-08-11 1:12 GMT+03:00 Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Sergei Nikulov wrote: > >> Wondering why LDAP is considering useful, but is SNMP is not? > > > I want everything new we consider to be properly motivated by someone who > wants to use said feature - preferably "someone" in plural. It doesn't > matter if there's another protocol/feature to compare with that we already > support. > > Everything we add to the library has to be documented, tested, maintained > and worked on in the future - forever and ever basically. And usually we > don't expand the developer base when we add new stuff either, so we only > give ourselves more future work with the same amount of hands. But sure, I > also won't stand in the way if there's a feature that fits the concept, > there's somone prepared to use it and someone else than me will do the > majority of the joob. > > If LDAP would've been suggested today, maybe I would've resisted it and > required more motivation in a way I didn't do back then. LDAP was in fact > added very early on (in curl 6.0 - September 1999) and I didn't have the > same view on things that early in the project. We didn't even have "libcurl > yet! >
"Everything we add to the library has to be documented, tested, maintained and worked on in the future" Nobody argues that. It was just a question. Thank you all for feedback. > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html -- Best Regards, Sergei Nikulov ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
