Kcite and libcurl

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Phillip Lord

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Feb 14, 2012, 11:29:48 AM2/14/12

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For the next release of kcite I wanted to move over to using libcurl.
This allows me to do content negotiation for metadata from DOI
resources. It's already made datacite integration easier, and I will
move crossref over also.

However on one of my ubuntu (test) servers, this required me to install
an additional package (php5-curl), as it's not installed by default. It
was present on my debian installs.

I was wondering, whether those of you running servers could *email me
directly* and tell me whether you have php5-curl support?

Basically, if a file containing:

<?php curl_init() ?>

gives an error, then you don't.

I can put some checking in kcite to give a graceful error message, but I
don't want to support kcite running without it. If this change is going
to break lots of servers, esp for people who don't have root access, I
may think again.

I'd appreciate also knowing if you are using kcite, and if installing
php5-curl would cause you hassle. The installation is trivial iff you
have the right access.