Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] replace CURLOPT_FILE With CURLOPT_WRITEDATA

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Jeff King wrote:

Let me just inject myself here and comment on two curl things.

>  - when is _FILE going away (or has it already in some versions)?

It will be kept around *at least* for as long as libcurl supports the version 7 API: for the forseeable future. Posssibly decades.

>  - when did _WRITEDATA appear?

All curl symbols ever introduced are documented clearly in which version they appeared. See:

   https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/symbols-in-versions.html

To map the version numbers to release dates, this second table comes handy:

   https://curl.haxx.se/docs/releases.html

CURLOPT_WRITEDATA was added in curl 7.9.7, shipped on May 10 2002.

In the curl project we often see users use *very* old versions but 18 years is longer than even the most conservative users I've seen...

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se (with my curl hat on)