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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the idea is to use the hosts thing as a troubleshooting/debug thing, I
have no qualms with it... I just didn't want it posted to the front page of
our blog as a "useful tip" :)

Adam Wolf

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >Replacing avhttp with lib curl is fine for the development branch once we
> prove it out but I am reluctant to backport it to the stable release for
> obvious reasons.
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> The development branch is entirely what I am targeting.
> I am pretty confident it'll work(and I'll put my eat my shoe if it
> doesn't) but I didn't want it backported  to avoid people blaming me
> for things and making me eat the shoe.
>
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> The point of the patch is to replace avhttp which is awful for us to
> maintain. The entire thing is in chinese and we have to self build it.
>
> libcurl has been around since 1998, it is extremely mature, stable,
> well documented and used in the majority of OSS projects and thread
> safe tested to extremes by now. The point of the patch is to be with
> the norm and not try some newage crazy library with no track record.
> Plus we get more protocols like FTP for what its worth.
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> > He suggested adding github to /etc/hosts so the host will cache the DNS
> look up but that's still no guarantee.
>
> Let's not start modifying user's system configurations to fix broken
> software. That's unbelievably backwards.
>
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