cURL

Just a short while ago I uploaded the 7.17.0 packages to the curl site, updated the front page, mailed the announcement and submitted an update on freshmeat. The previous release (7.16.4) was done in haste due to the security issue we got reported, but this time we took our time and I think we’ve done a [...]

I’m the maintainer and admin of a few different open source packages, perhaps most notable in the curl project but I also poke on c-ares and libssh2 and I do a fair amount of work on Rockbox and hang around in a few other projects as well. I write around 400-500 emails a month, the majority [...]

The major difference between the two programs you didn’t previously know about… The wikipedia page for curl is much smaller than the one for wget!

Domenico Andreoli, the Debian curl and libcurl maintainer posted to the curl-library list about the recent libcurl soname bump and the related issue of ABI breakage. I responded, explaining my view on why the soname bump from 3 to 4 was valid, but I’ve also gone back in my mail archives and checked out a private [...]