2016-08-11 1:12 GMT+03:00 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Sergei Nikulov wrote:
>
>> Wondering why LDAP is considering useful, but is SNMP is not?
>
>
> I want everything new we consider to be properly motivated by someone who
> wants to use said feature - preferably "someone" in plural. It doesn't
> matter if there's another protocol/feature to compare with that we already
> support.
>
> Everything we add to the library has to be documented, tested, maintained
> and worked on in the future - forever and ever basically. And usually we
> don't expand the developer base when we add new stuff either, so we only
> give ourselves more future work with the same amount of hands. But sure, I
> also won't stand in the way if there's a feature that fits the concept,
> there's somone prepared to use it and someone else than me will do the
> majority of the joob.
>
> If LDAP would've been suggested today, maybe I would've resisted it and
> required more motivation in a way I didn't do back then. LDAP was in fact
> added very early on (in curl 6.0 - September 1999) and I didn't have the
> same view on things that early in the project. We didn't even have "libcurl
> yet!
>

"Everything we add to the library has to be documented, tested,
maintained and worked on in the future"
Nobody argues that.

It was just a question.
Thank you all for feedback.

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