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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

i believe the curl-multi interface will also remove this inane requirement

On 24 February 2017 at 23:19, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cirilo,
>
> On 24.02.2017 01:52, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>
>> Since I know nothing of the github plugin code and the usage of curl
>> within kicad, I thought I'd ask if that block should be qualified by the
>> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN option or of there's some mysterious
>> reason why it must be there even when the GITHUB plugin is not
>> built.
>
> I thought that was already fixed.
>
> The proper fix is to make sure that only a single thread uses CURL. Then
> we can drop the OpenSSL dependency ourselves, as we only initialize some
> locking functions.
>
> Most people link against curl-gnutls anyway, or use SChannel on Windows.
> The difficulty is that curl will not tell you what implementation it
> uses until a connection is open.
>
>    Simon
>
>
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