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Re: php in upcoming curl release

From: Sterling Hughes <sterling_at_designmultimedia.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:58:10 +0000 (/etc/localtime)

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > As far as the extension is concerned, I don't like making
> > interface changes, because people tend not to be happy when there
> > old scripts stop working, however, retrospectively, there were a
> > couple of things I could've done better, so I might change the
> > extension api (this has been bothering my brain for a few months
> > now), to include the persistent connections and modify a few other
> > things that have been nagging me. Any thoughts on the matter?
>
> I'm very familiar with the "don't change the interface" thinking. That's also
> why I'm so happy with this new functionality in libcurl that is brought
> _without_ any changed interface.
>
> The only thing that has changed (well, not the only, but one that is visible
> interface-wise) is that the new version allows a different usage of the
> functions, since now we can transfer several files using the same curl handle
> (as returned by the init call).
>
> Perhaps all you need is to make sure (and document) that the PHP interface
> can use libcurl this way, and then you're fine! (*having a look*) yes, that
> should probably be it.
>

        Ok, darn. No need to break what's currently there then. :)

        I'll look into revising the docs...

        -Sterling

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