[darcs-devel] darcs patch - remove libcurl dependency

[Justin Bailey]

On 6/14/07, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
> I'm a huge fan of darcs being more verbose when it's needed.  I think
> regardless of what happens with libcurl we should strive to have more
> "debugging verbosity" in darcs.

The HTTP library, by default, will spit out everything it does to
standard out. It's almost too verbose, as its writes each Request and
Response header. But I'm sure existing flags could be used to control
the output.

> Also, what happens to all the special interaction people can currently
> have with the way darcs does HTTP?  IIRC, right now you can pass
> things such as proxy information to darcs via environment variables.
> Would we still have that without libcurl and wget?

This is still supported. The http_proxy variable is fairly standard
and is used to indicate a HTTP proxy server. DARCS_PROXYUSERPWD (or
something like that) can be set if the proxy server wants to
authenticate.

Justin