RFC curl

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:30:15 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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 with the compiler is out of date".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?

We definitely need to make it relatively easy to get the library, and I have no 
problem with us providing a separate download for it. But Phobos isn't tied to 
a particular version of libcurl, so if we provide it, we need to be providing 
it as a convenience rather than saying that this is the version to use. And 
really, we need better instructions in general about how to get a 3rd party C 
library to work with D code on Windows. It's obvious a bit of an ordeal for 
anyone who tries.

- Jonathan M Davis