The end of curl (in phobos)

[krzaq via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 14:26:27 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 14:19:15 UTC, krzaq wrote:
>> On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 13:31:46 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 09:43:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I understand that this is no longer a problem. We link 
>>> dynamically to the DLL, which is distributed with DMD, and 
>>> it's lazy-loaded (so we don't do anything at all until the 
>>> first std.net.curl function is called).
>>
>> That could lead to some nasty surprises when distributing a 
>> binary. I'd rather hear my customer say "I can't start your 
>> program, because some .dll is missing" than "it randomly 
>> crashes / doesn't work".
>
> You imply that the error message that Druntime generates when 
> it cannot find the DLL is significantly worse than the error 
> message that the OS generates when it cannot find the DLL.

Even if it's better, it's significantly *later*. Once my code 
runs in a production environment I'd really prefer it to not to 
stop over things that could've easily been prevented.