Re: Bindings for libcurl

Hi all,

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote:
> Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson writes:

>  > I've made a demo for libcurl bindings, with an emodule.
>
> I made one (plus one for neon) a long time ago, but never integrated
> it.  Lack of documentation and lack of a decent Emacsish API
> (especially for dealing with credentials) were the reasons.

I have been thinking about that.  Some things in libcurl are only
available as a FILE *, namely error reporting.

I was wondering if it would be possible to set up pipes with a FILE *
on one end, and a buffer on the other.

But I don't know if XEmacs has the internal features required.  Maybe
processes help.

[...]

> I guess I could push to github easily enough.  Maybe later this
> weekend.

I'd very much like to take a look at what you did.

I chose to use the libcurl license itself for my code, for two
reasons.  1) I copy the libcurl documentation directly into the
docstrings, and edit; 2) on the off chance it can be helpful for other
libcurl bindings.

Of course, if the goal is to distribute the module with XEmacs, other
considerations apply.


Johann