Simple HTTP support

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-26 23:18, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
> On 25/02/11 21.11, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-02-25 17:36, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>>> On 25/02/11 16.01, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 2/25/11 8:48 AM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>>> Libcurl declarations could be a way forward. As far as I can see from
>>> the phobos makefiles there really isn't any dependencies on anything
>>> other than standard system libraries and zlib. In order to support the
>>> full curl API the following libs are listed as optional dependencies.
>>>
>>> I guess it would not be a good idea to include the source for all these
>>> like it is done with zlib in etc. So how should this be handled? Should
>>> all optional deps just be opted out? Alternatively they could be
>>> statically linked in the binary distribution of phobos?
>>>
>>> /Jonas
>>
>> Tango uses zlib and OpenSSL. I you want to use the modules that uses
>> those libraries you just have to link to them. If you don't use them you
>> don't have to do anything. Of curse, this is as long as Phobos is static
>> library. When I think about it maybe Tango dynamically links to OpenSSL
>> and statically to zlib.
>
> I'll give the tango version a look.
>
> thanks
> /Jonas

I you want to contribute to Phobos do NOT look at the Tango sources. The 
Phobos developers don't like it.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg