On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 07:38:38 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
As Jonathan M Davis said:
---
Several of the main devs (including Walter) have stated that
having std.net.curl on Phobos was a mistake given all of the
problems that we've had with it on Windows and Linux as well,
and at least some of them have expressed a desire for it to be
removed. I expect that there's a good chance that it can and
will be removed from Phobos if brought up for discussion.
Certainly, I think that it's clear that we will not add any
further external dependencies like curl, because curl has
proven to be a big problem. It's very desirable to have
bindings and wrappers for C libraries - but putting them in the
standard library when it's not guaranteed that the appropriate
library is on the system by default has proven to be too
problematic, so they should be left to external projects.
---
"std.net.curl" can also be moved from Phobos to Deimos.
Deimos can be rethink, i.e. new build master can add a make
building script on Deimos in order to compile all projects
included on it, generating "libdeimos.a" and "libdeimos.so",
documentation, etc.
We need something to replace std.net.curl with in the first place.
The problem is that if want to support for example HTTPS or FTPS
we would end with dependencie (on openssl for example) anyways.
Another thing is that making anything more than trivial requests,
requires a bit of work - compressions, encodings, authentication,
RFC (*Grins) etc - it all makes it complex task.
Removing std.net.curl at this point will probably break a bit of
code.
About cases where people have problems with linking when using
std.net.curl for http - advise them to use Vibe.d http client or
Vladimir's ae.net.* stuff or Adam's Ruppe custom framework?
Dunno. Merge any of those 3 projects work into Phobos? Bounty for
D implementation of libCURL - like for phobos inclusion?
