From b0e2d47a3e8a8911b14deca5733254eff949e410 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:02:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] "remove progress meter from libcurl" at next API break --- docs/TODO | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index 055101e599..4a956ada83 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ 15.4 remove several functions 15.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR 15.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE + 15.7 remove progress meter from libcurl ============================================================================== @@ -577,3 +578,13 @@ to provide the data to send. Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we already offer the share interface for the same functionality but done "right". + +15.7 remove progress meter from libcurl + + The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library. + Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications + can and should do their own progress meters using the progress callback. + + The progress callback should then be bumped as well to get proper 64bit + variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work + correctly.