On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 21:21:45 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
On the subject of friction, I believe we make a mistake by
making a dependency on libcurl, a library over which we don't
have control. Some issues:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10710
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8756
Issue 8756 doesn't seem caused by libcurl. (If the pragma(lib)
feature is not portable then perhaps it should become a feature
of just DMD and not of the D language. This aligns a bit better
the theory/dream of D with the reality of D.)
Does pragma(lib, "curl") not work on Windows/DMD? I know it does
in Linux (used in DMD and LDC, ignored under GDC),
and was under the impression that that was the portable way to
use pragma(lib).
If it isn't now, I would argue that naming the library (rather
than the file) should be the standard, accepted use of
pragma(lib). It neatly avoids cluttering D code with version()s
and repeated pragmas to handle the different naming schemes.
