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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