[Issue 10710] shared phobos library doesn't work on all linux distributions

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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #47 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 2013-11-21 08:25:31 PST ---
> While the pull request is accepted or not, I think it would be important to
> determine the sentiment of the people about maintaining curl on phobos, and
> take a decision based on this result.

> How can we know that sentiment?

Several of the main devs (including Walter) have stated that having
std.net.curl was a mistake given all of the problems that we've had with it on
Windows, and at least some of them have a expressed a desire for it to be
removed. We should probably bring it up for discussion in the main newsgroup. I
expect that there's a good chance that it can and will be removed from Phobos
if brought up for discussion.

Certainly, I think that it's clear that we will not add any further external
dependencies like curl, because curl has proven to be a big problem. It's very
desirable to have bindings and wrappers for C libraries - but putting them in
the standard library when it's not guaranteed that the appropriate library is
on the system by default has proven to be too problematic, so they should be
left to external projects.

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