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RE: timeouts and multithreading

From: SM <nntp_at_iname.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:08:54 +0400

At 08:38 24-09-2001 +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>As libcurl is a somewhat "lowlevel" library, I hesitate a lot before I would
>make libcurl depend on a 3rd party library. Also, libcurl runs on _very_
>many and diverse platforms which put a great demand on the library in
>question. C++ is also out of the question, libcurl is C.

libcurl is a lowlevel library and I wish it would keep to being that.
Plugging in a third-party library may introduce problems on several of the
esoteric platforms supported by libcurl.

Regards,
-sm
Received on 2001-09-25