On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:

> By the way; I can't understand why the include's subfolder in the lib folder 
> of libcurl's package is named curl. I think this should be libcurl as curl 
> should be reserved for the app not the library. What do you think?

That name is carved in stone and simply won't change. Ever. Even if perhaps it 
would make sense, yes. We work hard at remaining compatible with our past.

The thing is that library names on *nix are traditionally "lib" + name and 
thus the name part is the actual name and "lib" just a prefix saying it is a 
lib. Thus libcurl is the curl library and that's why we have lots of name 
confusion in the curl (and libcurl!) project! ;-)

And of course, this is the curlpp list so discussions about actual libcurl 
details are not really suitable here. Take those to the curl-library list!

-- 

  / daniel.haxx.se
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