CURL review request

[Josh Simmons]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:37 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Jonas Drewsen:
>
>>If a decent package management tool was added to D which could handle downloading the binary lib for you then wouldn't that be an okey solition for you?<
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> What I think is acceptable is to put now the binary of the Windows library inside the zip of the DMD distribution. Once that decent package management tool will be present and working on Windows, you will be free to remove the binary lib, if you want (but I suggest to not do it, because D std library is suppsed to have few batteries included, and today accessing the web is a basic need. Maybe even the package management tool needs a curl to download the files, so we are back to the start).
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> dsimcha:
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>>Also, anyone have any luck getting Curl libs to work with DMD on Windows?  The binaries available at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html look like they're COFF.  (<rant> Why do we still use freakin' OMF? </rant>)  Also, the source doesn't look like it's pleasant to compile.<
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> See my answer above :-) If I want to use DMD to write a 20 lines long script-line program I will not compile a C lib (and probably a 200 lines long program too).
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> Bye,
> bearophile
>

If you're writing a 20 line long script why are you not using a
language more suited to the task like python, perl, lua, ruby or hell
php?

I don't see this as a good reason to bring a third party dependency
into phobos, especially something so tangential to everything as curl.

Accessing the web is a basic need solved by having a solid core
sockets and streams implementation, which we don't have. Curl is just
another library binding as far as I'm concerned.

Cheers,
Josh.