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

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 00:19:31 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Care to make it interesting? I may have some funds for this. 
> But we're looking for no less than a glorious 100% replacement.

Meh, my first choice is still to just bundle curl with phobos, 
like we do with zlib. It seems silly to me to want a glorious 
100% replacement of an *open source* library.

Regardless, I probably wouldn't be the ideal choice for changing 
the implementation because I barely use the interface: I wrote my 
own http modules, including one that uses curl and one that 
doesn't, before std.net.curl came around. The phobos thing had no 
compelling benefit to me, so I never switched most my code.

Thus, I'm not very familiar with std.net.curl's strengths and 
weaknesses and would likely break it somehow while changing the 
implementation.


...unless doing a new interface is on the table too. Then, we can 
leave std.net.curl exactly how it is, so people who use it don't 
have broken code, while a new std.net.http, std.net.smtp, 
std.net.ftp, and so on are phased in for people who want them. I 
could get behind that.