Re: [GNUnet-developers] 14/14: gnu: gnurl: Add HTTP/2 support.

[ng0]

ng0 transcribed 3.1K bytes:
> Christian Grothoff transcribed 3.7K bytes:
> > On 02/24/2018 10:43 PM, ng0 wrote:
> > > Marius Bakke transcribed 1.6K bytes:
> > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:
> > >>
> > >>> nckx pushed a commit to branch core-updates
> > >>> in repository guix.
> > >>> +             ("nghttp2" ,nghttp2 "lib")
> > >> As far as I can tell, we don't have an nghttp2 package yet :-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Why? I don't even intend to support http/2 with gnURL.
> > > gnURL is not cURL. Are there any reasons why this should be build in?
> > 
> > Well, the idea of Gnurl was to be reasonably minimal and to avoid the
> > kitchen-sink dependencies (and unpredictability wrt SSL support) of the
> > original Curl. I personally don't see a need for http/2 at this point
> > (bad), especially as it adds additional dependencies (very bad) and
> > would not be available equally on all systems Gnurl runs on (very very bad).
> 
> I agree here and wasn't 100% sure on http/2. I just check the list of 
> abilities
> to not build only when I do the releases.
> 
> > My recommendation remains that Curl should be modified to dlopen()
> > extensions/plugins to load protocol/TLS-support extensions on-demand.
> > Until that happens,
> 
> This will take some time, cURL has some of your early criticism on their
> todo list last time I've read the todo list, but we might be faster switching
> to wget2. Only time will tell.
> 
> > my view is that we should be very, very conservative
> > in terms of features we add to avoid creating another kitchen-sink. For
> > those with kitchen-sink requirements, there is always Curl...
> 
> Okay. With this in mind, could anyone with access to the branches in Guix
> revert this commit?
> Furthermore, should I add a comment above the gnurl package definition wrt
> the goals of gnURL and that it already gets build the way it is intended
> to?

Well there's one fixme, which is the same as for cURL in Guix: Get the 
certificates
working. patches in gnURL accepted, as well as anything that's better than my 
last
attempt in gnURL in Guix which broke builds on some systems.
I don't have the time to think of solutions for this at the moment.

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