libcurl in version management

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Already before, I’ve mentioned that libcurl is becoming popular within package management.

libcurllibcurl 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.

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When Java can’t keep up

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

For us who don’t really like Java and who get annoyed by the fanboys who claim Java is as fast as C, Shawn O. Pearce’s recent write-up on the git mailing list on why the Java implementation (JGit) doesn’t run nearly as fast as the C implementation is minty fresh and with lots of details…

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