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

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Nov 26 11:29:01 PST 2013


On 11/26/13 11:14 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 19:06:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> But my understanding is that the dependency is conditional, i.e. you
>> have no dependency on libcurl unless you attempt to use std.net.curl.
>> Which strikes me as entirely reasonable. No?
>
> There is no such thing as _The_ curl library. Different distros may have
> versions with incompatible symbol versioning installed - this is the
> very issue with Fedora which was actively discussed in bugzilla.

But can't we say "to use std.net.curl with dmd 2.xxx you must have 
libcurl 7.10 or higher"?

Andrei




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