RFC curl

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 18:38:48 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/9/2011 5:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 16:58 bearophile wrote:
> >> Is the (just) Windows compiled version present in the DMD zip? I don't
> >> remember what was the decision on this (I'd like it to be present).
> > 
> > Currently, no version of libcurl is included in the zip file. I don't
> > believe that there has been any decision on what to do about it. But if
> > we do end up including it, then that's one more reason to consider
> > splitting up the zip file by OS.
> 
> I don't want us to get caught in the rat race of "the version that comes
> with the compiler is out of date". libcurl has its own development cycle,
> and dmd should not be slaved to that.

Yeah. That's one reason why I'm not a fan of the idea of distributing it with 
dmd. So, it won't hurt my feelings any if it never gets put into the zip file. 
However, we're going to have to make it clear in the documentation on how to 
get your hands on an appropriate libcurl library (especially since any version 
of it that you're likely to find online would be in the wrong library format).

- Jonathan M Davis