From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Building Git with HTTPS support: avoiding libcurl? Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:35:52 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1450798780.11255.22.camel@mad-scientist.net> <1450805416.11255.58.camel@mad-scientist.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Paul Smith , git To: Daniel Stenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 23 20:36:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aBpCe-0003cX-4y for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:36:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934011AbbLWTf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:35:59 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:53080 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933852AbbLWTf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:35:58 -0500 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.143.185]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MhQxO-1ZpBk02CoM-00MfrG; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:35:54 +0100 X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:vTAjh8vARYcCXWtQ/xu8EQRa9ex6bk3jCfajzsh/KDvx2RqcGTX mAeaTvznO73S8cwveJiDBY673Mo1EpNyr8t9sqv7d65uDlnYR0cTh22hCbbftw+1+xulK8v X0WZZYjU/KCV8/NLcIbRh1vx4GtkRrCZkVHClCRVaOkR32/NBP9yRtaqf3U8+dBJDHGzFJF QHgIGsTvNaJdSQTWNZJ8A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:KDz3D6WLtcc=:cIZBr7yBRR2c6rygc1iR+i 830g7nru2Nq5EQWGW9PSstzJcPnglcvj8ba2yKy97pBublTFfrB5xyaim3VOQBvBS+Z/S0Uok +0ttyWT8iehxIenwue38hDhNffRjceuzePmyvhbvTdpn275550RlU3Pi0Ikt4OOjgX+Gv/z6D rDkBh2UDo1tbfavrVuJthoe8+JpCLyK8HuOaVn1Xw4oPi1mVmjqmVb4lqKH8cwwpw8dGBY718 Pm1mxSoCN0FsZAFKoLQZam7BhlVtveoYBpEGPzRcWqeaN4w2OEOwWos72HIoDE2lUm1f2HdEm 3nkLSKXfdaFCak2sY5EnOcnEmIcGmyGTCzWURHF96/egs0Q1BeTAUP3s4ddOJaB5kB4SdNtRm NVPcEz52rPa2zU7mWQ9Mr68QQZaMt/t5hf0o34yw4DyXWWbm0mV/Hf0bzvH1zIEzlDEaJPjJv YV7qetAPX4jWBgDMe9UegOOmvpHp+ccNFA6X4TIhqDIrdCn65t/K4IzXPHkq8HkGzWT+TESAG 2jtw9uvNUDLM+C2Cmj1PF9SHmHEI5n8PB8AVNeJFiWE1IWztHoItIbfnKKEHzERGUsld2L1Vl rFoeVGRnqCA+KLWDa6ReEBe7MkfQo8ZrPDhzk+pzbsI0nEzJ/HLodIitb5vKQdaHQgsrQVEiK eYeaLvbbBrWII88OaNidQ+aWTr0X7kFU+Wr0nUxxRlUwx8I+qSfSE0wEVlrBsMSexj/GqZtYU DCnIcONcLadEvdLbVVw6EUsTt5KnUR7wymhL04tKYqiQ7rqpVK9S7bdlVevcwaR0oQIcqhWD Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Daniel, On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > By re-using a very widely used, well developed and properly documented > library [libcurl] (yeah, I claim it is but you don't need to take my > word for it) that is available everywhere - git benefits. For what it's worth, I fully agree. My perspective: By using a pretty much fully-configured cURL, Git for Windows has supported the largest number of use cases with minimal requirements from myself. It has been a boon. If every library was as easy to use and as high quality, anybody could maintain Git for Windows ;-) Ciao, a very grateful Dscho