MPD stopped building since fmt 11.1.0; see
<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/issues/4304>. The first commit
fixing this was 9db7144, followed by 5de0909 (both on the
unstable branch).
This commit removes what the author believes to be the remaining
uses in the MPD codebase.
This should replace most InputStream::Open() calls because it is a
chance to reuse existing resources (e.g. the NFS connection). No such
optimization is implemented, currently (and the method is not yet used
by anybody).
Boost makes building a piece of software much more difficult than
necessary. It's a huge library, and just uncompressing it takes a
considerable amount of time. MPD only used a tiny fraction of it, yet
its header bloat made the MPD build very slow. Locating Boost was
difficult due to its arcane build system and its resistance to use
pkg-config; it's always a special case. MPD could never use features
of newer Boost versions because Linux distributions always shipped old
Boost versions. Boost made everything complicated and slow.
So, finally, after getting rid of GLib (commit ccdb94b06c), switching
to C++ and using Boost (commit 0801b3f495), we've finally get rid of
it 8 years later.
Unfortunately, I had to reimplement parts of it along the way
(e.g. IntrusiveList). Kind of NIH, but on the other hand, compiling
MPD has become much easier for users.
According to the latest WebDAV specification (RFC4918),
timestamp string in the getlastmodified property is formatted
as rfc1123-date, such as "Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT".
However, to process responses from servers in the older style
format specified in RFC2518, timestamps in the HTTP-date format
had better be accepted.
As described in the libcurl api documentation, curl_getdate() can handle
timestamp strings in HTTP-date formats, including rfc1123-date.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4918#section-15.7https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2518.html#section-13.7https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getdate.html
