RFC curl

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Windows is generally a place where people expect to not have to go and 
install other external packages for things like this, but rather have it 
bundled with the installer (zip in this case). Whereas on Linux, you 
could just use your package manager to install the libraries, for 
Windows, you'd have to actually find the website, find the library, 
possibly compile it (difficult on Windows), implib/coffimplib it 
(something which has little to no documentation and is very hard for new 
people to figure out, and something I had a LOT of problems with trying 
to figure out originally; it doesn't even come with DMD), and finally 
link it and hope for the best. It would be MUCH better and simpler to 
just include it in the zip for Windows.

On 09/11/2011 6:58 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
>
>> Thank you so much for doing this. I think it's a nice piece of work.
>
> I agree.
> As they say, easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
>
>
>> * libcurl should be a link to where people can read up on what it is.
>> I suggest http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl
>> Point out that the user will need libcurl installed on their system in order to
>> use etc.curl.
>
> Is the (just) Windows compiled version present in the DMD zip? I don't remember what was the decision on this (I'd like it to be present).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile