[Issue 10710] shared phobos library doesn't work on all linux distributions

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https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10710



--- Comment #48 from Jordi Sayol <g.sayol at yahoo.es> 2013-11-21 08:50:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #47)
> Several of the main devs (including Walter) have stated that having
> std.net.curl was a mistake given all of the problems that we've had with it on
> Windows, and at least some of them have a expressed a desire for it to be
> removed. We should probably bring it up for discussion in the main newsgroup. I
> expect that there's a good chance that it can and will be removed from Phobos
> if brought up for discussion.
> 
> Certainly, I think that it's clear that we will not add any further external
> dependencies like curl, because curl has proven to be a big problem. It's very
> desirable to have bindings and wrappers for C libraries - but putting them in
> the standard library when it's not guaranteed that the appropriate library is
> on the system by default has proven to be too problematic, so they should be
> left to external projects.

Totally agree. Can you reissue this post to the main newsgroup in order to open
this discussion please?

Thank you.

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