If the idea is to use the hosts thing as a troubleshooting/debug thing, I have no qualms with it... I just didn't want it posted to the front page of our blog as a "useful tip" :)
Adam Wolf On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Mark Roszko <[email protected]> wrote: > >Replacing avhttp with lib curl is fine for the development branch once we > prove it out but I am reluctant to backport it to the stable release for > obvious reasons. > > > The development branch is entirely what I am targeting. > I am pretty confident it'll work(and I'll put my eat my shoe if it > doesn't) but I didn't want it backported to avoid people blaming me > for things and making me eat the shoe. > > > > > The point of the patch is to replace avhttp which is awful for us to > maintain. The entire thing is in chinese and we have to self build it. > > libcurl has been around since 1998, it is extremely mature, stable, > well documented and used in the majority of OSS projects and thread > safe tested to extremes by now. The point of the patch is to be with > the norm and not try some newage crazy library with no track record. > Plus we get more protocols like FTP for what its worth. > > > > > > > He suggested adding github to /etc/hosts so the host will cache the DNS > look up but that's still no guarantee. > > Let's not start modifying user's system configurations to fix broken > software. That's unbelievably backwards. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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