Should "std.net.curl" be moved from Phobos to Deimos?
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 16:28:56 PST 2013
On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 00:13:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> The continuing stream of issues associated with curl is
> puzzling me. We chose curl _exactly_ because (a) it was
> available or trivial to install everywhere, (b) it had accreted
> through experience a bunch of tricks that made little sense to
> rediscover the hard way.
>
> Now it seems curl is failing at least the first premise, so we
> should consider various alternatives. First I'd like to gather
> an understanding on why we seem to have this problem (far as I
> understand, the likes of php and python are doing fine with
> curl, but maybe I'm wrong). So is there a short and simple list
> of issues that anyone can put together?
>
> If we do decide to do away with libcurl, one possible solution
> would be to embed its source code within our build. That way we
> wouldn't break code that already uses it.
>
>
> Andrei
A solution could be to ship curl with phobos, if license allow to
do so.
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