bagder: curl-www/libcurl _competitors.html,1.36,1.37

[email protected] Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:41:26 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.www.cvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Update of /cvsroot/curl/curl-www/libcurl
In directory giant.haxx.se:/var/tmp/cvs-serv29692

Modified Files:
	_competitors.html 
Log Message:
more blurb, fixed spell, fixed link


Index: _competitors.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/curl/curl-www/libcurl/_competitors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.36
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -d -r1.36 -r1.37
--- _competitors.html	16 Oct 2010 09:05:41 -0000	1.36
+++ _competitors.html	18 Oct 2010 13:41:24 -0000	1.37
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 </ul>
 <b><a href="http://www.w3.org/Library/">libwww</a></b> (<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231">W3C license</a>) <a href="libwww.html">comparison with libcurl</a> <br>
 <ul>
-  More complex, and and harder to use than libcurl is. Includes everything
+  More complex and harder to use than libcurl is. Includes everything
   from multi-threading to HTML parsing. The most notable transfer-related
   feature that libcurl does not offer but libwww does, is caching.
 </ul>
@@ -146,9 +146,15 @@
  "<i>a set of routines that implement the FTP protocol. They allow
  applications to create and access remote files through function calls instead
  of needing to fork and exec an interactive ftp client program."</i>
+<br>
+ I stopped using it because it did not evolve and the maintainer did not even
+ answer to my e-mailed patches and forum posts. The web site seems abandoned
+ and the forum is not reachable anymore. It is simpler to use than libcurl,
+ because it is not based on callbacks. But is is also much less powerful. / <a
+ href="http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2010-10/0109.html">Patrick</a>
 </ul>
 
-<b><a href="http://freshmeat.net/redir/ftplibpp/42918/url_homepage/ftplibpp">ftplibpp</a></b> (GPL)
+<b><a href="http://kasablanca.berlios.de/ftplibpp/">ftplib++</a></b> (GPL)
 <ul>
  A C++ library for "easy FTP client functionality. It features resuming of up-
  and downloads, FXP support, SSL/TLS encryption, and logging functionality."