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This is supposedly some kind of an open source/free software community. Yet 75% of the members claim to be involved in no projects at all, with another 10% involved in only one project...

I do get mildly annoyed by the fact that with the recent Redhat betas of 8.1 or 9 or whatever they'll end up calling it, curl fails to build with OpenSSL. Again, Redhat steps forward and causes havok.

This is because they've decided that we should all use 'pkg-config --cflags openssl' to figure out that we need the include path setup to point out the kereberos headers in order to be able to successfully include <openssl/ssl.h>...

Argh.

Today my 'postmaster' got mail from "spamcop.net". He was utterly confused and mailed me and asked why he got this weird mail...

It turned out that spamcop.net is a blatantly stupid complain-to-the-spammers system, which tracks down the origins of URLs in "spams" and mails the postmasters of the supposedly offending spammer sites.

Now, the "spam" in this case was a mail in which someone described his travel by train in Peru, and there he added a URL to my page with a few pictures from the city of Aguas Calientes near Machu Picchu:

http://daniel.haxx.se/travel/southamerica/peru/agua.html

So, I'm an alleged spammer because I keep a page that one person liked to much he mailed a bunch of people pointing it out.

Well, I figure someone pulled some strings to make this happen and someone can of course have made a perfectly normal human error here, but it sure ended up very strange in my side of the world..

Now, let's get the cURL release complete and away. Stay tuned friends, it'll soon pop up in your freshmeat-syndicated box of recent announcements.

So McAfee apparently makes an anti-virus program called Virex, that is using libcURL, and it graciously mention me in the about window.

This has had the minor side-effect that users of Virex find my email address there and mail me for requests and questions regarding Virex.

I hadn't even heard of it when the first mails started to show up in my mailbox this weekend...! ;-)

This is actually one of the more pleasent kinds of problems, at least if it doesn't grow out of proportions.

jhermann, I can only agree with your sentiments on the sourceforge public CVS server status as of lately. It seems it is more dead than alive these days... :-/

Just wanted to mention that Denise is still alive, and that I've started working on it again after it having been idle for a couple of months.

It does work somewhat rudimentary already and I hope to get the example program to build and run fine with asynch one name => ipv4 resolve this week.

I will need help from people to get DNS server information on various platforms, to be able to make a decent gethostbyname() (etc) clone.

I like the fact they went with trio in Glib.

glibc 2.2.93 is the one used in Redhat 8.0

When we use that and call gethostbyname_r() with a too small buffer, it no longer returns ERANGE. It now returns EAGAIN!!!

But, older versions (like the ones in redhat 6.0 or 7.3) of glibc obviously sometimes returns EAGAIN when the lookup fails due to normal resolve failures.

So, what the heck shall I check for when I want to know if I need to enlarge the buffer or if the name just doesn't resolve?

PAAAAAIIIINNNNN

dillo, viewml, konq-e, opera

microwindows, tiny-X, QT/e, GTKfb

All those choices. I need a solid window system with a good enough browser using as little memory as possible on an embedded Linux on ARM...

stuff

Phew, this time it took more than three months to produce a new release of cURL. I don't think it has ever taken so long time before... Hm, wrong, it has, but the last time it took this long time I did some pretty major rewrites.

This time it has mostly been an extended period of bug fixes, design decisions and thinking over how things should be done, how they are done and how one might possibly wish that it was done.

Anyway, I need full public releases for people to actually run the code. I fool myself into sometimes believing that releasing pre-releases is enough, but it isn't.

life

Just kidding. Even if I had any, I bet you wouldn't be the least interested.