Dear list,
I have made a more detailed look into the wxcurl code in opencpn and a tentative wxcurl package (draft in salsa). Facts in short: - Upstream is abandoned since 2010. - Upstream uses the bakefiles system to generate Makefile.in + configure. bakefiles is not available in debian (I have used fedora to update Makefile.in + configure). - OpenCPN has made a large number of non-controversial patches: bugfixes, expanded API etc. - OpenCPN has also made a major API change to fix a problem in the Windows build. - An OpenCPN package will need a wxcurl package with the same API change or carry patches for an unrevised API. The latter is feasible, but hard to upstream and perhaps a pain to maintain. Bottom line: I'm not that convinced that unbundling wxcurl is the proper way to go any more, mostly due to the combination of an abandoned upstream and a revised API. The alternative would be to use the wxcurl code bundled in OpenCPN. Thoughts? Cheers! --alec .
