Loading lib/README.curl_off_t +8 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -38,3 +38,11 @@ The strong connection to off_t made it troublesome for application authors since when they did mistakes, they could get curl_off_t type of different sizes in the app vs libcurl, and that caused strange effects that were hard to track and detect by users of libcurl. SONAME ------ We opted to not bump the soname for the library, simply because soname bumping is causing a lot of grief and moaning all over the community so we try to keep that at minimum. Also, our selected design path should be 100% backwards compatible for the vast majority of all libcurl users. Loading
lib/README.curl_off_t +8 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -38,3 +38,11 @@ The strong connection to off_t made it troublesome for application authors since when they did mistakes, they could get curl_off_t type of different sizes in the app vs libcurl, and that caused strange effects that were hard to track and detect by users of libcurl. SONAME ------ We opted to not bump the soname for the library, simply because soname bumping is causing a lot of grief and moaning all over the community so we try to keep that at minimum. Also, our selected design path should be 100% backwards compatible for the vast majority of all libcurl users.
