Re: Removing bundled libs in curl-loader

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Dear Pavel,

This is to confirm that curl-loader will work properly without patches
for libcurl and libevent.

The patches have their own advantages but not so important.

I do not have any clues about fsf addresses, though.
Regards,
Robert


On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Pavel Alexeev <fo...@hu...> wrote:
> Hello Robert.
> Firstly I glad receive response from you.  Thanks. I also had write
> about incorrect fsf address in files headers which leaved without answer
> (it is not stop issue, but I should be inform you [1]), and also there
> long time no new curl-loader releases... So I became fear project abandoned.
>
> What concerned libevent patch, had it been ever proposed to include for
> upstream libevent project? Is it possible to do?
>
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf-address
>
> On 24.07.2015 12:43, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:
>> Dear Pavel,
>> First, we like truly community distros like
>> Debian and Fedora.
>>
>> Originally, we had 4-5 patches for libcurl, mainly increasing productivity,
>> and all were integrated to libcurl besides this
>> one that Daniel, the curl maintainer, had hesitated to incorporate.
>>
>> I will look next week into this matter and what could be done,
>> but we have a good command of libcurl and error codes
>> were not a substituted from my mems.
>>
>> There's a one more essential patch and it's for libevent library.
>> This patch increases in some define maximum number of allowed
>> file descriptors to enable much higher productivity for curl-loader.
>>
>> Without this libevent patch curl-loader will function with a limit
>> of the number of connection specified in libevent as low as only 64K
>> as I remember, but it will function properly within this limitation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Pavel Alexeev <fo...@hu...> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I'm Pavel. I have intension include curl-loader into Fedora Linux
>>> distribution.
>>> Unfortunately you use bundled copies of curl, c-ares and some other in
>>> packages directory.
>>>
>>> That is strongly prohibited by our rules:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
>>>
>>> I have tried link curl-loader with system libraries, and observe you
>>> patch that software (patches directory).
>>> Brief look at curl-trace-info-error.patch leave me in frustration. Why
>>> you prefer patch that library instead of use wide range of predefined
>>> error codes http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html ?
>>>
>>> So, in that point it is stop issue.
>>> Do you willing working on that issue?
>>>
>>> --
>>> With best wishes, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus). For fast contact
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