RFC curl

[Jimmy Cao]

2011/11/9 Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net>

> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Kapps <Kapps at notvalidemail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I agree.  Python's "batteries included" style approach is a huge boon.
>  The number of users who would need a different version than the one
> included pales in comparison to the productivity gains of including it.
>  People who need a different version can just replace it themselves.  We
> could also just make the installer give the user a choice of installing it
> or not.
>
>
>>
>>
>  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
>>>
>>
>>
>
I agree, on Windows it would be best to have a competent installer that
does this.
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