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Greetings everyone,
The Gemini feature for curl is at risk of being closed:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11170
Is there anybody able and willing to continue with this pull request?
2023-07-12 · 10 months ago
☀️ mike · 2023-07-12 at 20:32:
While it would be nice to have Gemini support in curl, there does seem to be some resistance. I think this is healthy as a mature project, or any project for that matter, like curl shouldn't just accept a pull request adding an entirely new protocol without going into the details of the specification and asking for a robust set of tests. I feel like this pull request requires the continuous efforts of multiple engineers if it's going to succeeed.
As an alternative that a lot of people are probably already familiar with, gemget does a nice job and works today. However, I'm not saying I wouldn't want to see Gemini in curl as well :)
🧇 Acidus · 2023-07-12 at 23:24:
I'm not a C programmer, or otherwise I would.
Wait, isn't Lagrange written in all C... [looks to @skyjake ]... I'm just saying...
☀️ mike · 2023-07-12 at 23:41:
Yeah, I have the same problem in that I'm not fluent enough in C to work on an update of this magnitude. I could possibly help out a bit if a more experienced C developer takes the lead.
🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-07-13 at 16:30:
Thanks for the vote of confidence @Acidus, but I'm not in position to push this forward... As I understand it, the work is mostly about putting together a test suite and documentation. That kind of work is not that complicated but certainly time-consuming. However, the remaining ambiguities in the Gemini specification make it somewhat more difficult to create a comprehensive test suite.