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diff --git a/lib/README.curl_off_t b/lib/README.curl_off_t deleted file mode 100644 index 923b2774c..000000000 --- a/lib/README.curl_off_t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ - - curl_off_t explained - ==================== - -curl_off_t is a data type provided by the external libcurl include headers. It -is the type meant to be used for the curl_easy_setopt() options that end with -LARGE. The type is 64bit large on most modern platforms. - -Transition from < 7.19.0 to >= 7.19.0 -------------------------------------- - -Applications that used libcurl before 7.19.0 that are rebuilt with a libcurl -that is 7.19.0 or later may or may not have to worry about anything of -this. We have made a significant effort to make the transition really seamless -and transparent. - -You have have to take notice if you are in one of the following situations: - -o Your app is using or will after the transition use a libcurl that is built - with LFS (large file support) disabled even though your system otherwise - supports it. - -o Your app is using or will after the transition use a libcurl that doesn't - support LFS at all, but your system and compiler support 64bit data types. - -In both these cases, the curl_off_t type will now (after the transition) be -64bit where it previously was 32bit. This will cause a binary incompatibility -that you MAY need to deal with. - -Benefits --------- - -This new way has several benefits: - -o Platforms without LFS support can still use libcurl to do >32 bit file - transfers and range operations etc as long as they have >32 bit data-types - supported. - -o Applications will no longer easily build with the curl_off_t size - mismatched, which has been a very frequent (and annoying) problem with - libcurl <= 7.18.2 - -Historically ------------- - -Previously, before 7.19.0, the curl_off_t type would be rather strongly -connected to the size of the system off_t type, where currently curl_off_t is -independent of that. - -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 unconditionally, 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. - -Enforce SONAME bump -------------------- - -If configure doesn't detect your case where a bump is necessary, re-run it -with the --enable-soname-bump command line option! |