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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/26/13 11:39 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 19:23:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7044
>>
>
> This is a constant annoyance of mine using std.net.curl on Linux.
>
>> Now if that doesn't set off the alarms. Win32/64 curl libraries are
>> NOT shipped with dmd zip or whatever. The better thing is that last
>> time I checked there is no proper which means that for Win32 one had
>> to get the rare OMF object file format (a custom compilation no less).
>
> Nah, it was as simple as generating an import library from the DLL.
> There's no need to build libcurl yourself to do that. The installer
> automatically downloads one I prepared a long time ago already.
>
> @brocolis recently prepared an updated libcurl zip with the OMF import
> library as well as 64-bit support. It also uses WinSSL instead of
> OpenSSL so using it is even easier than it was before. The installer has
> already been updated for it:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/27
>
> With that libcurl should just work on Windows for both 32 and 64 bits.
> Linux problems are basically all that remains of the libcurl issues.

This is pretty awesome. Is @brocolis around on this forum?

Andrei