libcurl in version management
Already before, I’ve mentioned that libcurl is becoming popular within package management.
libcurl is a generic library for file transfers over a wide variety of protocols. Over the years, some of the recent ditributed version management softwares have learned about libcurl’s powers and they now use it:
darcs - was born in 2003 and is written in Haskell. I’m under the impression these guys wrote their own binding layer to interface libcurl from Haskell.
git - possibly best known for being created by Linus Torvalds and being used by the Linux kernel project, is using libcurl for HTTP(S) accesses.
bazaar – is written in Python and accordingly uses the pycurl binding for libcurl.
Anyone know of other version control systems using libcurl?
Ironies here include that libcurl itself is still kept within a CVS respository, and also quite possibly that the first version management project I myself participated is Subversion and that not only has two different HTTP dependencies, but none of those two are libcurl (they are neon and serf)…
Update: it seems that Mercurial is also using pycurl as an optional dependency.
September 22nd, 2009 at 00:30
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