On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:38:12PM -0000, Regis Boudin wrote: > Amaya build-depends on libwww and seriously relies on it. Removing it > will put me in a quite uncomfortable situation. I would like to avoid > following upstream who use a statically built and linked version of the > library if I can.
Hmm, OK. Using a statically linked version would have been my first suggestion. > I could try to push them towards libcurl, though I'm afraid they won't > react well... Having tried to create a program using both libwww and libcurl, I can say that libcurl is _much_ better in every aspect. These days, libcurl can even do HTTP pipelining, which was only supported by libwww for a long time. Would you maybe be interested in taking over maintainership of libwww? BTW, currently the following unstable packages build-dep on libwww: amaya liboop mapserver wmweather+ xdvik-ja xmlrpc-c Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | \/¯| http://atterer.net ¯ '` ¯
