CURL review request

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:39:36 -0400, bearophile wrote:

> jdrewsen:
> 
>> etc.c.curl is already in phobos and no binary library for curl is in.
> 
> I see. I didn't know this. Then it's the good moment to improve this
> situation.
> 
> 
>> I disagree on this one though. But please see my reply to jonathan as
>> to how I see final solution.
> 
> Most times I'll not use a Phobos module that to be used requires the
> compilation of a multi-file C library. I use another language where this
> functionality is already present, like this one:
> http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
> 
> Accessing the web from the language today is a basic feature, and quite
> more commonly needed than as example complex numbers.
> 
> In Clojure even the Phobos equivalent of the File function loads from
> the web if you give it an URL instead  of a file path :-) Please help
> pushing D into this decade.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

My original SQLite3 pull request included the SQLite library and had it 
compiled into Phobos just as zlib. This was turned down from the 
perspective that bug fixes to SQLite will not require an update to Phobos.

While not everyone voice an opinion no one but myself was arguing to 
include the library.