News
this week in curl land
fscons.org went live
Dan F’s call for internationalization
The curl vs wget document and work on that
The work-in-progress ABI document for what we “guarantee” in libcurl regarding to binary interface compatibility etc between
fscons site is alive!
Since Henrik replied to my previous blog posts, I figured I better write a new one to simply state the fact:
http://www.fscons.org/
…is now up and working. Go there and read all about it! And yeah, my curl talk is currently set for 15:00 on that Saturday.
curl vs wget, really
Ok, since people truly and actually often ask me about what the differences are between curl and Wget, it might be suitable to throw in my garbage here and state the main differences as I see them. Please consider my bias towards curl since after all, curl is my baby - but I have contributed [...]
libcurl in less than 50KB
Gary Maxwell enlightened us that his build (of a slightly older libcurl) is way below 50KB on an ARM7 architecture, while Dan Fandrich could squeeze the latest libcurl release to at least below 100KB on x86.
Of course these particular builds are fairly stripped down builds with only HTTP support left, but they are built from [...]
libcurl bindings
Christopher Smith blogged about improving curlpp and not only did Jean-Philippe react immediately, it also showed me how far away I am from these C guys and their ideas and views of the world.
Not only I am not even aware of what functors and facets truly are (nor do I really care), but I find [...]
fscons curl talk, part II
Ok, it seems the pricing for the entire conference (7-8 dec 2007) is going to be:
Student: 60 euro
Private: 120 euro
Company: 240 euro
The blurb for my particular talk (that is going to be held in English, mind you) that is scheduled for 13.00 on dec 8 is drafted like below:
curl and libcurl is a free [...]
Backwards Compatibility Efforts Gone Broke?
An example from the wild about how hard it can be to satisfy everyone when you’re writing and offering a library to the world: with the recent libcurl release suddenly open office doesn’t link fine with it.
It turns out these guys have
curl and libcurl 7.17.0
Just a short while ago I uploaded the 7.17.0 packages to the curl site, updated the front page, mailed the announcement and submitted an update on freshmeat.
The previous release (7.16.4) was done in haste due to the security issue we got reported, but this time we took our time and I think we’ve done a [...]
I am Rude and Mean
I’m the maintainer and admin of a few different open source packages, perhaps most notable in the curl project but I also poke on c-ares and libssh2 and I do a fair amount of work on Rockbox and hang around in a few other projects as well.
I write around 400-500 emails a month, the majority [...]
curl vs wget
The major difference between the two programs you didn’t previously know about…
The wikipedia page for curl is much smaller than the one for wget!