On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 8/12/13 11:08 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> On Aug 11, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Walter Bright >> <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Absolutely. As much as I like libcurl, I was kind of surprised when >> it was bundled with DMD. > > On the other hand we instantly got a library that took years in development > and testing, that a lot of people are familiar with. C'mon people do I need > to spell it out that it's always tradeoffs as opposed to only goods or only > bads? I don't think anyone was suggesting otherwise.