Revert curl change made for flash
Bastien Nocera
bnocera at redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 13:42:05 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:35 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:00 +0300, Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
<snip>
> > The change just provides some backward compatibility. It's minimal.
> > I really think it's not important why the change was made. Since it
> > doesn't break anything and it doesn't waste disk space. It may be
> > useful for some dead opensource projects that use the older version.
>
> There are better ways to do this. Providing a compat-curl package is
> the proper way. The way it was done now is just a hack with the sole
> intention of making flash work again.
A compat-curl project that would contain duplicated/unmaintained code?
What's the point of this since libcurl didn't break ABI, and only
changed soname?
This is getting a bit too far.
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