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diff --git a/README.cares b/README.cares index aca54c8..4dee46e 100644 --- a/README.cares +++ b/README.cares @@ -1,13 +1,15 @@ c-ares ====== -This package is based on ares 1.1.1 (written by Greg Hudson). I decided to -fork and release a separate project since the ares author didn't want the -improvements that were vital for our use of it. +This package is based on ares 1.1.1 (written by Greg Hudson). Daniel Stenberg +decided to fork and release a separate project since the original ares author +didn't want the improvements that were vital for our use of it. -This package is dubbed 'c-ares' since I (Daniel Stenberg) wanted this for use -within the curl project (hence the letter C) and it makes a nice pun. Also, -c-ares is not API compatible with ares: a new name makes that more obvious to -the public. +This package is dubbed 'c-ares' since Daniel wanted this for use within the +curl project (hence the letter C) and it makes a nice pun. c-ares is not API +compatible with ares: a new name makes that more obvious to the public. -The original libares was distributed at athena-dist.mit.edu:pub/ATHENA/ares. +The original libares was distributed at +ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu:pub/ATHENA/ares (which seems to not be alive +anymore). A local copy of the original ares package is kept here: +https://c-ares.haxx.se/download/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz |