On Mon, 26 Sep 2022, Dmitry Karpov wrote:
Your proposal for fixing problem with the default "IPv6 works" function is
to move the problem from the "system" level to the "client" level and make
clients aware of which "platform" (HW, kernel version etc) they may running
on and use platform-specific "IPv6 works" function in all places where
transfer is set.
I think your idea of two separate levels, system and client, is interesting,
and it could be worth exploring.
I could imagine a concept where you create a "system" from which you make
easy handles, as then the "system" could define things that all subsequently
created easy handles inherit. Like IPv6 functionality.
system = curl_system_init();
easy = curl_easy_init_system(system);
which possibly could be faked pretty good today with:
system = curl_easy_init()
easy = curl_easy_duphandle(system);
an alernative could be to (somehow) store easy options for a specified scope
within a multi handle, so when you create new easy handles for use in a
certain multi handle you could:
easy = curl_easy_inherit(multi);
I think my main problems with your current design proposal is that your
"system level" is global (with all the problems and limitations that brings)
and that it needs to use a callback for information that really isn't needed
to be set by a callback. Details that are the direct results of your
introduciton of these separated levels without libcurl actually having any
such separation of priviledges and now you have to shoehorn them in and then
it can't be done in a very clean way.
And if documenting, publishing etc is a hassle then can we make it
"undocumented API" then?
No, that's just worse. We either have an API or we do not. If we have it, we
support it completely and it needs to be fully documented so that everyone
knows what to expect from it, and it needs to be tested. Otherwise it will
lead to security problems and that we accidentally slightly break behavior in
a future with the following sad faces.
Every function we add has a weight and a cost. It adds code, it adds docs, it
adds tests and it adds to the haystack for people trying to find their
needles. It is our duty to always resist adding more. Until we are convinced
we need to add the new stuff.
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