Should "std.net.curl" be moved from Phobos to Deimos?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/26/13 7:48 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 07:38:38 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
>> As Jonathan M Davis said:
>> ---
>> Several of the main devs (including Walter) have stated that having
>> std.net.curl on Phobos was a mistake given all of the problems that
>> we've had with it on Windows and Linux as well, and at least some of
>> them have expressed a desire for it to be removed. I expect that
>> there's a good chance that it can and will be removed from Phobos if
>> brought up for discussion.
>>
>> Certainly, I think that it's clear that we will not add any further
>> external dependencies like curl, because curl has proven to be a big
>> problem. It's very desirable to have bindings and wrappers for C
>> libraries - but putting them in the standard library when it's not
>> guaranteed that the appropriate library is on the system by default
>> has proven to be too problematic, so they should be left to external
>> projects.
>> ---
>>
>> "std.net.curl" can also be moved from Phobos to Deimos.
>> Deimos can be rethink, i.e. new build master can add a make building
>> script on Deimos in order to compile all projects included on it,
>> generating "libdeimos.a" and "libdeimos.so", documentation, etc.
>
> +1
> It should have been removed from Phobos long ago.

The problem is that "long ago" adding libcurl seemed like a perfectly 
reasonable option, particularly considering that we didn't (and we 
don't) have anything to replace it.

Andrei