Comment by dist-epoch
14 hours ago
> I have been working full-time on curl since 2019. For me, this typically means doing 50 hour work weeks, as I spend all days on it and then I top them off with a few more hours every late night – all days of the week
I wonder what is there to work on curl 50 hour weeks for 7 years?
https://curl.se/libcurl/
Let me Google that for you.
supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on numerous platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, UnixWare, HURD, Windows, Amiga, OS/2, BeOs, macOS, Ultrix, QNX, OpenVMS, RISC OS, Novell NetWare, DOS and more...
TIL it supports mqtt. Happy 10000 day to me :)
I'm 90% sure that even the monkey's paw curls.
Linux started removing support for obsolete protocols and hardware
Maybe there is place for a minicurl which removes BeOS and Novell NetWare...
I think the argument was that curl is fairly feature complete (as shown by your list), is there really that many bugs in curl that require immediate attention?
"Featureful" doesn't imply "feature complete". They appear to release minor versions all the time.
https://curl.se/docs/releases.html
If you dig into them you'll see there's lots of features that aren't adding new protocols. But incidentally they added a new protocol in March (mqtt). You'll also see that the list of bug fixes is prolific.
https://curl.se/ch/8.19.0.html
Increasingly so, yes.
It's massive and complex codebase. From the looks of it, pretty much what you'd expect, lots of chores, work on the test suite, keeping docs up to date, bug fixes. I didn't see any new features on my light skim but I'm sure they land occasionally.
https://github.com/curl/curl/commits?author=bagder
This is the HTTP/1.1 standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616
Then there are also HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
That's just HTTP, curl supports 27 other protocols.
HTTP/1.1 - June 1999
It's not like the standard changed since curl was created
It (the http rfc) refers to other standards such as for URLs, and those did actually change (to include ipv6 and more internationalisation).
That's a tree, but the rest of that comment is the forest.
The entire http, http2, http3, tls, sftp spec for every operating system.
When we are talking about one of the most used pieces of software in the world, there is always things to do.
What do you work on? My guess is you have an inexhaustible list of work to be done, right? We all do, curl included.