Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] profiles/desc: add curl_quic

[Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>]

Hi,

On 2024/06/21 15:15, kangie@gentoo.org wrote:

> From: Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>
>
> The CURL_QUIC USE_EXPAND enables us to sanely manage QUIC (RFC 9000)
> backends as they are added to cURL in the future: currently there are
> two supported implementations, OpenSSL and ngtcp2,  however it's likely
> that other popular TLS libraries will expose QUIC APIs over time,
> and that these will be eventually be supported by cURL (see CURL_SSL
> for examples of TLS libraries that we support) - we may as well
> get ahead of the curve here.
>
> There are already a number of other small players (i.e. OpenSSL Forks)
> exposing QUIC support for quite a while, however these have not been
> available in ::gentoo and we've only needed the one USE to enable
> for HTTP/3 and QUIC to this point.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>
> ---
>   profiles/desc/curl_quic.desc | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 profiles/desc/curl_quic.desc
>
> diff --git a/profiles/desc/curl_quic.desc b/profiles/desc/curl_quic.desc
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..372bb9ce8f83
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/profiles/desc/curl_quic.desc
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
> +# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> +
> +# This file contains descriptions of CURL_QUIC USE_EXPAND flags for net-misc/curl
> +
> +openssl - Use OpenSSL
> +ngtcp2 - Use ngtcp2

May I suggest simply calling this USE_EXPAND QUIC_IMPL so that other 
packages can potentially re-use as well?

looking through ::gentoo at least net-dns/dnsdist and net-dns/knot also 
has a quic support, using ngtcp2 and/or net-libs/quiche.

With openssl 3.2 hopefully approaching stable at some point I suspect 
the number of projects that will be adding quic support via one or 
another channel (possibly with alternative implementations) will only 
increase, thus pinning the USE_EXPAND on a single package seems 
potentially short-sighted.

Kind regards,
Jaco