Re: Adopting wcurl into the curl project?
Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > I'm not sure if you watched our Debian curl maintainers BoF during DebConf, > but we discussed about that possibility there. I saw it. (Thanks for doing that and for making the video available so quickly.) I have also seen a lot of requests (from users in the wild) for exactly this. It simply makes sense to me and to many others. > I also mentioned that I'd like to rewrite wcurl in C and make it use libcurl > natively. While having it in POSIX shell has benefits, I think having it in > C would make it more robust in the long run. We're already having to deal > with some shortcomings caused by the fact that it's written in shell script. I totally get that and I support it. Inviting wcurl into the curl org does not mean nor imply that I want to "take over" or "control" the development of it. I primarily want to offer a different roof over wcurl's head so to speak. For wcurl to join the merry curl family. I want to let you, the creators and existing maintainers of wcurl, to continue doing what you're doing and let you decide where to go next. Of course I hope more contributors will join in and existing curl maintainers are pretty good at doing that. > Having said that, I also think that it is ready for production as is, so I > don't have any reservations about incorporating the script into curl right > now. Then let's start there! Some next steps as I see them: - can we just transfer over the wcurl repository on GitHib from Debian to curl somehow? I'm open for setting up a meeting where we can sync up and make that happen. - communication: is it enough to keep discussions about wcurl in GitHub discussions/issues and on this mailing list? It has worked out dececently okay for trurl, which has tested out the waters as a "new sibling" already. - website presence. I propose we make "https://curl.se/wcurl" a thing once it actually lives under the curl umbrella. - as the wcurl license is already SPDX curl, I see no action required needed for that - what else? -- / daniel.haxx.se | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features | https://curl.se/support.html -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html