That sounds like a bad architecture and a bloated app. It's like if VSCode decided "we don't do plugins, everyone commit your idea directly into our main repo"

That sounds like a bad architecture and a bloated app. It's like if VSCode decided "we don't do plugins, everyone commit your idea directly into our main repo" A sensible plugin architecture would let you do either curl --plugin=LDAP or a naming convention would load the appropriate plugin based on the protocol. Yes I know, armchair code design. And I also know it's nice not to have to deal with configuration, a large app "just works" (though FYI, it does have 15-20 dependencies which are similar to plugins, it has 3 direct and more indirect dependencies). But, 2hrs a day * 23years = 16790hrs!!!!! Something seems wrong for that much time to be spent on "curl" Just to be clear, first, thanks so much for curl! And second, of course having not touched the code ever I have no idea why it required 16k hours of dev time and continues to require more, it could totally be justified. I'm only saying that at a glance, 2hrs a day, 23years sounds surprising and it makes me wonder if there isn't some ways to reduce the load.