On 08/24/2017 10:31 AM, ng0 wrote: > Hi everyone, > > With the release of 7.55.1-3 I am positive that I achieved one of the > initial goals of gnURL: cURL and gnURL should be able to exist on one > system (without the need for downstream packagers to apply further hacks). > > So, what's next? > > * New Features? > Christian concluded the initial announcement post of gnURL with: > "However, we're happy to add new features relating to this core > subset and might be easier to convince than the cURL developers." > > So, what features would you like to see without introducing too > much maintenance burden you have to debug? Is there anything > cURL doesn't do you'd like to see or change?
Well, what I primarily had in mind was making curl pluggable. We should dlopen() libraries that support protocols, both in terms of transport protocol (HTTP/FTP/etc.) and crypto (OpenSSL/GnuTLS/etc.). That way, libgnurl itself would not link against the world plus a kitchen sink, but only against dependencies we actually need. That said, with GNU (lib)wget2, there is a competitor for cURL (at least the HTTP-part) on the horizon, and GNU wget2 is already working on using GNU libmicrohttpd for their test suite, so I think we should take a closer look at it to see if it might be a better alternative to cURL and gnURL before investing significant efforts into gnURL.
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