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.
