Network I/O and streaming in D2

[Justin Johansson]

As a parallel thread to the current one on std.xml, I've started
this thread to seek a similar discussion on requirements etc..

Recapping what Andrei said over there :-

"If you want to work on the top most important item, probably
networking would come ahead. We badly need http and ftp
streaming libraries. I'm thinking libcurl would be a good choice
as a backend (not interface).  For D integration, it would be great
to  integrate networking with std.stdio.File - e.g. creating
File("http://xyz.org") would just connect to the thing and
allow streaming, ranges, everything. Adam Ruppe has a
lower-level networking protocol that also hooks into
std.stdio.File, which would be very important to have too."

Yes, I agree that libcurl might be a choice as a backend.  Is
its license okay?

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Cheers
Justin Johansson