using libsilchttp

[Pekka Riikonen]

: 
: Is there a way to easily pull out the http library from the toolkit for
: separate use?
: I want just the http api, but it looks like it includes silc.h
: everywhere which includes tons of stuff from all over the toolkit.
: Surely most of it isn't necessary.
:  
Currently this is not very easy from the official distribution.  In 1.2 
Toolkit we are actually going to make a split so that the runtime part is 
going to be a separate toolkit, crypto part is going to be separate 
toolkit and the SILC protocol stuff is going to be separate toolkit.

In 1.2 the HTTP library will be part of the SILC protocol toolkit, but if 
people want I have no trouble releasing the HTTP also as an entirely 
separate, non-related, optional, HTTP server library.  Of course, that 
library would still have a dependecy of the SILC Runtime Toolkit (ie. it 
must be installed in the system).  The SILC Runtime Toolkit will be a 
package like glib or Apache APR, except way better. ;)

Of course if you don't want to wait and don't mind playing with the CVS 
and Autodist, you could create yourself a new http library distribution in 
your local SILC CVS tree (install autodist from silcnet.org and read 
manuals, and see distdir/ directory in SILC CVS tree) and pull the HTTP 
library out that way, but that would mean you'd have to play around quite 
a lot with the configure scripts and Makefiles.

Another change in the trunk development is that every big feature and 
library will have their own distribution define, so that, they can be 
pulled out easily, included easily or excluded easily from distributions.  
I think HTTP library has SILC_DIST_HTTP defined for it in distdir/ already 
but using it alone to create a separate package won't work me thinks.

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
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