What was the reason for not including std.net.curl in the Windows phobos library?

Denis Shelomovskij verylonglogin.reg at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 00:57:57 PDT 2012


07.07.2012 17:11, Kevin Cox пишет:
>
> On Jul 7, 2012 8:45 AM, "Gary Willoughby" <dev at kalekold.net
> <mailto:dev at kalekold.net>> wrote:
>  >
>  > What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the Windows
> phobos library?
>
> IIRC it is licencing issues, they can't include curl in the distribution
> without certain requirements that were deemed to awkward to implement.
>

No, it was a bug in AutoTester. Se discussion at pull 613:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/613

CURL licence permits us from including CURL _binaries_ only so one have 
to download it manually from "Other Downloads" section of
http://dlang.org/download.html

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Денис В. Шеломовский
Denis V. Shelomovskij




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