[PATCH] DLD upload

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 13 March 2013 16:38, Robert C. Helling <helling at lmu.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
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> Lubomir,
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>> frankly, the only reason i've used libsoup in the webservice dialog,
>> was due to how poorly the packaging (or lack off) of libcurl was done
>> for native windows, which may not be the case for the cross-build. if
>> you decide to use libcurl, we may as well re-write the other dialog to
>> use it, but that means that the native windows build is
>> out-of-the-game (which is not a biggie), until i find i way to build
>> libcurl or download from somewhere pre-built properly. since gnome
>> officially supports libsoup the integration was less painful, but i'm
>> also aware that libcurl is the more mature library out of the two.
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> I have no windows machine currently at my displosal (let alone one with a
> working compiler toolchain) so I cannot check.
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> When I wrote this last night, I only stumbled over libcurl while googling to
> understand how to do it in libsoup. On their webpage they stress at several
> points that they made quite an effort to make libcurl platform agnostic and
> from their download page http://curl.haxx.se/download.html there is a long
> list of OS flavours for which they offer downloads. And at least on my mac
> it was a matter of two command line commands (where the first was only used
> to find out the package is called curl and not libcurl in macports). So I
> assumed things would be as simple also for other OSes. I don't know what the
> exact problem was in your case but if you google "libcurl windos" there are
> a number of success stories.
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>

yes, libcurl has a history to be very portable, so it must be
something on my end.
i can try building/downloading again, i guess.

on the other hand, the libsoup re-write should be quite trivial, also
if i'm no mistaken we get easy SSL support, but that has to be
confirmed.

lubomir
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