On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Rich Megginson wrote:

>> (I noticed you also posted this as an issue, with some additional details
>> over at https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3698 but we don't do feature
>> requests there so expect that one to close soon.)
>
> Will it go into https://curl.haxx.se/docs/todo.html then ?

Yes.

>> I think it is an interesting idea to move the config parser into the
>> library. Or perhaps, into *a* library. I haven't thought this through
>> really, but maybe it would make sense to have a dedicated "curlconfig"
>> library whose only purpose would be to read a curl config and set libcurl
>> options?
>
> It would certainly speed up development of applications that use libcurl,
> and that need/want to support dozens of libcurl options.

Yes, I can certainly see the beauty of offering something like that and the
curl tool could be a primary user of that API.

At the same time, this is not a feature request we've seen a lot over the
years so I'm not likely to personally invest much time and energy in this idea
unless a few others step forward and help out making it happen.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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