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Re: patch release tomorrow

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:00:59 +0200

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:27:17PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Richard Gray wrote:
> >>Possibly most notable: we're reverting the change that modified the
> >>CURL, CURLM and CURLSH types and they go back to be 'void *' unless you
> >>define CURL_STRICTER before including our headers.
> >
> >I wonder if there's an itch that wants to be scratched in terms of a
> >curl_lite.h or #define CURL_MINIMAL or something...
>
> Maybe. But I prefer not to act on something like that until we get someone
> who actually have that itch come here and advocate for something like that
> so that we A) are sure there truly are people who want and would use
> something like that and B) we would do it in a way that would accurately
> scratch the itches of such people...

I wouldn't mind seeing CURL_STRICTER set automatically whenever CURL_NO_OLDIES
is set. The latter is used by people to ensure that their code is
forward-compatible with libcurl and the CURL_STRICTER changes really fall into
the same bucket.

>>> Dan
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