[darcs-devel] darcs patch - remove libcurl dependency

[Eric Y. Kow]

Hi Tim,

In case you're not on the darcs-devel list, would you care to comment on
this patch?

Cheers,

Eric

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 16:35:13 -0700, Justin Bailey wrote:
> Here's a patch which removes the dependency on libcurl. It has been
> pretty thoroughly tested on Windows, and should work on other
> platforms. I believe it's ready for inclusion - all tests passed.
> 
> This patch adds a dependency on the HTTP library, which is pure
> Haskell and is available on Hackage at:
> 
>  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP-3000.0.0
> 
> Proxy support requires the most recent version of the HTTP library, at:
> 
>  darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/http/
> 
> Hopefully the author will upload the latest version to Hackage soon.
> 
> This patch does not do all that was requested in issue #377
> (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue377), which is also intended to remove the
> libcurl dependency, but its a step forward.
> 
> The changes summary is below and the patch file is attached. Let me
> know if there is anything else I can do to help.
> 
> Justin
> 
> Wed Jun 13 16:15:58 Pacific Daylight Time 2007  jgbailey at gmail.com
>  * Completed replacement of libcurl.
> 
> 
>  libcurl is now entirely replaced. The new code supports
>  proxies and basic authentication (for the proxy or remote
>  repository) correctly.
> 
> 
> Thu Jun  7 13:58:36 Pacific Daylight Time 2007  jgbailey at gmail.com
>  * Removing libcurl dependency


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