Should "std.net.curl" be moved from Phobos to Deimos?

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 25.11.2013 09:32, schrieb Jakob Ovrum:
> On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 07:38:38 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
>> "std.net.curl" can also be moved from Phobos to Deimos.
>> Deimos can be rethink, i.e. new build master can add a make building
>> script on Deimos in order to compile all projects included on it,
>> generating "libdeimos.a" and "libdeimos.so", documentation, etc.
> 
> Deimos currently only hosts bindings, not wrappers, as part of
> its objective. So, etc.c.curl would be appropriate, but
> std.net.curl would be unprecedented.
> 
> I think both etc.c.curl and std.net.curl should just be ripped
> out and moved into a CurlD (or whatever) project, hosted by
> someone on Github (such as Jonas Drewsen or a maintainer), on the
> grounds that I don't think Phobos is a place for wrapper
> libraries.
> 
> I think std.net.curl is a well designed wrapper library, and I
> would happily continue to use it in my projects, but I don't
> think it's appropriate for Phobos.
> 
> As an aside, personally I think Deimos is pointless; and worse,
> horribly executed (A Github organization? Really?). A simple wiki
> page like this one[1] can do the job much better and without the
> ridiculous self-imposed disadvantages we are putting up with by
> using a Github organization.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Bindings

Or, even better (because it doesn't get out of date), an automatically
generated list like this one:
http://code.dlang.org/?sort=name&category=library.binding