On 01.09.2011 06:43, David Nadlinger wrote:
I forgot to specify a timezone in the announcement, so depending on your location the code review period for the etc.curl module by Jonas Drewsen has either already ended, or is going to end later today:
- Finally, it is not quite clear what the best place for this library is. Currently, it resides in the »etc« package because it depends on an external C library, but this decision has been questioned: To begin with, it is not clear what the »etc« package is for in the first place. The Phobos documentation index [3] only has »Modules in etc are not standard D modules. They are here because they are experimental, or for some other reason are not quite suitable for std, although they are still useful«. Besides an implementation of the Gamma function,
That's been gone for years. It was removed in DMD 2.027.
the package currently contains translated C headers for zlib and sqlite, so there is precedent for the aforementioned position that etc is the appropriate place for modules depending on external libraries.
