Re: GNUrl, GNUnet and alpine-linux

[xrs]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:41:10 +0000
Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> wrote:

> Hence many distributions (now also including OpenWrt[1]) now offer
> a package called 'curl-gnutls' which basically builds libcurl with
> the settings previously used to build libgnurl and then uses patchelf
> to change the soname from 'curl' to 'curl-gnutls'.  

Sadly, this is not (yet) the case for Alpine Linux. Here, curl is
linked against OpenSSL and there is no package called curl-gnutls. 

> Maybe the fact that gnURL is a relict of the past should be officially
> announced or at least more prominently stated on the project website?
>  

I agree, some update is needed on how to handle this. 

Also I'd like to point out that the information about gnURL on
gnunet.org is reachable under

  https://www.gnunet.org/en/gnurl.html

but not under 

  https://gnunet.org/en/gnurl.html

cu,
xrs