From 99185417952da30c8ddd82ab962fb58da96260b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:03:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] My first attempt at documenting what we try to support and make curl run with in regard to C standard, third party libraries and operating systems etc. --- docs/INTERNALS | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS b/docs/INTERNALS index 84538a9..4209095 100644 --- a/docs/INTERNALS +++ b/docs/INTERNALS @@ -22,6 +22,43 @@ CVS Tagging shall be used extensively, and by the time we release new archives we should tag the sources with a name similar to the released version number. +Portability +=========== + + We write curl and libcurl to compile with C89 compilers. On 32bit and up + machines. Most of libcurl assumes more or less POSIX compliance but that's + not a requirement. + + We write libcurl to build and work with lots of third party tools, and we + want it to remain functional and buildable with these and later versions + (older versions may still work but is not what we work hard to maintain): + + OpenSSL 0.9.6 + GnuTLS 1.2 + zlib 1.1.4 + libssh2 0.16 + c-ares 1.5.0 + libidn 0.4.1 + *yassl 1.4.0 (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-02/0093.html) + openldap 2.0 + MIT krb5 lib 1.2.4 + qsossl V5R2M0 + Heimdal ? + NSS ? + + * = only partly functional, but that's due to bugs in the third party lib, not + because of libcurl code + + On systems where configure runs, we aim at working on them all - if they have + a suitable C compiler. On systems that don't run configure, we strive to keep + curl running fine on: + + Windows 98 + AS/400 V5R2M0 + Symbian 9.1 + Windows CE ? + TPF ? + Windows vs Unix =============== -- 2.7.4