On Aug 11, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday, August 11, 2013 14:43:13 Walter Bright wrote:
>> That said, as soon as the D *package* starts to depend on
>> non-default-installed libraries, trouble happens. With libcurl, the only
>> solution so far seems to be to BUILD OUR OWN LIBCURL binary!
> 
> At this point, I'm inclined to think that while it's great for us to have 
> bindings to C libraries and to have user-friendly, D wrappers around them, 
> it's better that they don't end up in Phobos.

Once D has a good, well-known package system I think the inclination to make 
Phobos a "kitchen sink" library may subside somewhat.

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