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

[Iain Buclaw]

On 26 November 2013 19:07, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Why?
>
> Andrei

The problem I think is a distribution one.  Not a compiler/library problem.

Remembering to include '-lcurl' when importing std.net.curl is perhaps
one urk.  But this will be a no longer a problem if libphobos is built
shared.