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Re: dlopen dependencies
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-distros <curl-distros_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:08:39 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 13 Mar 2026, Dimitri John Ledkov via curl-distros wrote:
> I wonder if such a design can be implemented in cURL for the many
> dependencies it has. It would enable distributions to build "one curl", and
> provide additional metapackages with additional runtime dependencies to
> activate additional protocols and algorithms.
I would suggest you bring up design and development questions on the
curl-library list, which is dedicated for that.
This subject has been brought up regularly for decades.
No one is strongly against it, but since curl builds and runs on everything, a
non-dlopen system would still need to be there for them, and then we make
things fairly complicated. No one has signed up to do that complicated work,
or managed to convince the core project people that this is an idea worth
spending all that effort on.
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:08:39 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 13 Mar 2026, Dimitri John Ledkov via curl-distros wrote:
> I wonder if such a design can be implemented in cURL for the many
> dependencies it has. It would enable distributions to build "one curl", and
> provide additional metapackages with additional runtime dependencies to
> activate additional protocols and algorithms.
I would suggest you bring up design and development questions on the
curl-library list, which is dedicated for that.
This subject has been brought up regularly for decades.
No one is strongly against it, but since curl builds and runs on everything, a
non-dlopen system would still need to be there for them, and then we make
things fairly complicated. No one has signed up to do that complicated work,
or managed to convince the core project people that this is an idea worth
spending all that effort on.
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