Spring-Cleaning for 2025

[cmeister2]

It'd be nice if the code was a little more up to date. Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of things I'd like to cover in the short term.

Poetry (done)

Make the project a poetry project for the Python files so that Renovate works and there's a standard interface for scripts, etc, as well as an easy method for setting up virtual environments.

Reduce the number of bash scripts

Surely there's a better technology that we can use for this! Investigate what that might be.

Make TLVs better / easier to populate from the curl code

We've languished without a load of new options for ages because adding TLVs is a chore. I'd hope that it's relatively easy in the curl code to differentiate between what options take what type of value (i.e. string argument, number, etc), and have a script add those in automatically.

Better format for testcases

The TLV format is fine but it might be suboptimal for fuzzing. Look into structured fuzzing.

[bagder]

I'd hope that it's relatively easy in the curl code to differentiate between what options take what type of value (i.e. string argument, number, etc), and have a script add those in automatically.

I'd say it is relatively easy. The easyoptions.c file is generated to hold that information.

[dfandrich]

W.r.t. poetry, that seems like overkill for so little Python, especially since there seems to be a total of one additional dependency. Adding Poetry would double that! A pyproject.toml would still be useful to document that dependency.

[cmeister2]

W.r.t. poetry, that seems like overkill for so little Python, especially since
there seems to be a total of one additional dependency. Adding Poetry would
double that! A pyproject.toml would still be useful to document that dependency.

Fair, but it would allow me to specify dev-dependencies as well. Since I'm probably 1 of maybe 3 people who ever use the Python in this repo, I don't feel like it's a stretch to add this.

[dfandrich]

Fair, but it would allow me to specify dev-dependencies as well.

dev dependencies can be specified in [project.optional-dependencies] which seems to be a standard field.

[cmeister2]

re: reducing scripts; it seems like the contenders for this are:

• do it in CMake
• do it in Meson

I know neither of these so I have no preconceptions about either.