libURL gone mad

[Charles Warwick]

Hi Richard,

On 3/09/2016 3:15 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Q for Charles:
> For me the convenience of being able to deliver a true standalone, 
> with no externals or other components, is very useful on this 
> project.  I appreciate the new capabilities Charles is providing in 
> v8.1, but for those projects where I only need simple GET and POST I'm 
> hoping I'll be able to deliver true standalones that don't require 
> that external - is that the case, Charles, or is libURL now fully 
> dependent on the external?
>
The theory is that you can issue the following command while in the IDE:

dispatch "revUnloadLibrary" to stack "tsNetLibUrl"

Which will remove the dependency of tsNet from libUrl.  From the moment 
you do that, libUrl will revert to its old behaviour and the external 
will not be included in standalones.

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the current RC1 release that means this 
doesn't work.

I have been meaning to get around to working out why - hopefully I can 
do so in the next day or two and get this resolved before the final 8.1 
release.


> Back to the main issue, since I'm seeing good results thus far in my 
> testing (thanks again, Charles) I've submitted an enhancement request 
> to have the function Charles suggested be added to libURL for those 
> who may need it:
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18318
>

Thanks for doing that.  If I get a moment, I will submit a PR for it.

Regards,

Charles