The end of curl (in phobos)

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 08:55:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Walter's main complaint seemed to be that he didn't like the 
> idea of depending on C libraries other than the C runtime in 
> our standard library, since it meant that there was code in our 
> standard library that we did not have control of, and it 
> arguably looks bad to have to use C libraries in our own 
> standard library. But the big problem that I'm aware of has had 
> to do with the fact that we then have an external dependency 
> that not everyone has on their system. Even on Linux, on 
> distros that separate out "dev" packages so that you have to 
> install one package to use a library and another to build code 
> using it, libcurl is not necessarily going to be there to be 
> built against (and it's definitely not on Windows normally). 
> And that's definitely caused problems - though including 
> libcurl with the dmd installer (which we didn't do initially) 
> has reduced those problems.

Martin has also made curl lazy-loaded, so you should not have any 
problems unless you both try to use curl and don't have the curl 
DLL in your PATH.