On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Byron wrote:

> How's this?

It looks like a working approach, sure, but you haven't convinced me that we
need it in the first place.

This is a fairly complicated way to add a function to curl, that all operating
systems already provide. Redirecting version info from stdout is nothing curl
needs to bother with. Redirecting stderr was a silly enough feature to add,
and that was done only because some systems don't offer enough flexibility to
differentiate between stdout and stderr.

I don't think the use case "I write a program that wants to check the curl
version and I can't use a normal system call to fetch stdout" is very common.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf