self_update
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Change `reqwest` dependency against `ureq`
This PR removes reqwest
, and its transitive dependencies like tokio
, and uses ureq
instead. The latter library uses curl
as HTTP client. libcurl
should be installed by default on all current Windows and MacOS installations, and most likely by all serious Linux distros, too.
libcurl
is only loaded at runtime instead of being a hard dependecy. This way, if libcurl
is not installed, the program will still run just fine, but the self update will fail.
This changes makes the github
example much smaller:
1808048 github.master
1127536 github.patch
-680512 bytes or -38%
$ size github.master github.patch
text data bss dec filename
1738914 52288 529 1791731 github.master
1078768 31784 465 1111017 github.patch
-660146 -20504 -64 -680714