I read, by accident last night, a post on the curl-users mailing list, a
suggestion by its
maintainer that RO-specific support should be removed from the source.
He said:
The --environment command line option has existed since April 2002 and
is
documented to be specifically for RISC OS builds. It is also enabled in
src/makefile.dj for DOS-builds.
I now want to remove that option and all code related to it since it is
such a
niche feature, there doesn't seem to be any RISC OS builds updated
since years
and I see no reason why DOS builds specifically should need/use this
either.
The pull-request for doing so is already submitted, see link below.
If you object to me merging this, please speak up and tell me why!
I haven't a clue whether that would cause any current RO users a
problem. As the maintainer
mentioned this in a post entitled:
--environment anyone?
I've commented that no RO user of curl would necessarily realise that it
meant them... I also
suggested that he contact ROOL to see if they had a view on this, but
I'm not sure that he is
going to. So I did... and Ben Avison replied suggesting I mention it
here.
The curl mail list can be found at:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/list.cgi?list=curl-users
(It's been ages since I used RO, but I know it's still in use.)
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
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