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

Jonas Drewsen nospam4321 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 26 13:33:48 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 21:23:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 16:39:50 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Meh, doing the http and smtp stuff isn't rocket science. I did 
> a little http library in ~300 lines on my github that some D 
> programmers who don't want curl use.

Yes - basic http, smtp is easy. But have a look at the libcurl 
API docs and think about how many lines it would take to 
implement that in D.



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