RFC curl

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-10 04:39, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 18:38:48 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/9/2011 5:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 16:58 bearophile wrote:
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> Currently, no version of libcurl is included in the zip file. I don't
>>> believe that there has been any decision on what to do about it. But if
>>> we do end up including it, then that's one more reason to consider
>>> splitting up the zip file by OS.
>>
>> I don't want us to get caught in the rat race of "the version that comes
>> with the compiler is out of date". libcurl has its own development cycle,
>> and dmd should not be slaved to that.
>
> Yeah. That's one reason why I'm not a fan of the idea of distributing it with
> dmd. So, it won't hurt my feelings any if it never gets put into the zip file.
> However, we're going to have to make it clear in the documentation on how to
> get your hands on an appropriate libcurl library (especially since any version
> of it that you're likely to find online would be in the wrong library format).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

What about distributing it from the dpl page but not in the dmd zip?

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/Jacob Carlborg