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 |
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| 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 =================================================================== 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."