curl-library
Re: spnego_mech_oid & krb5_mech_oid
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:50:32 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:50:32 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Michael Osipov wrote:
>> GSSAPI: remove useless *_MECHANISM defines.
>
> why do consider them useless? I added them on purpose for not to fiddle with
> the internal GSS structs. Mere symbolic names.
>
> What harm do they cause?
They lead to mistakes exactly like mine when I searched for the variable use
but found none since it was used via defines instead.
IMHO, the defines don't serve any useful purpose and they don't add anything
to a reader, thus they are in the way. That's the code approach we use all
through libcurl actually.
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