On 11/26/13 11:23 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
I find that if we actually worked on getting curl integrated better it may just as well be an all right network client lib.
Great.
For the moment it looks as if half people are pissed off because of the work they would need to do on it (workaround, shipping, maintenance, etc.), and the other half (using it) are having usability problems on all fronts.
I don't think that's the whole set. Don't forget the forum participation is a very small fraction of people who actually use D out there. So there are a bunch of people who don't use curl and aren't hurt, and presumably quite a few people who do use std.net.curl without troubles and don't know we plan to pull the plug on it.
Now to my limited experience with it. When I work with it on Linux I have to always jump through hoops because of: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7044
Interesting, I ran into that too with ldc. That, fortunately, is fixable on our end.
Because of that in the end I tend to dodge it completely and roll some shell script scaffolding that calls `curl`, as in the cmd-line client. See some hilarious things I had to do to link it properly: https://github.com/blackwhale/tools/blob/master/posix.mak#L35
Interesting. Never knew of the pattern syntax in there.
Now if that doesn't set off the alarms. Win32/64 curl libraries are NOT shipped with dmd zip or whatever. The better thing is that last time I checked there is no proper which means that for Win32 one had to get the rare OMF object file format (a custom compilation no less).
Is that file needed if one does NOT use std.net.curl? Would it be a bear for us to distributed that particular file?
You may or may not find them at the VARY BOTTOM of downloads page, and figure it out how to fit them, what flags to use etc. Last but not least it's Win32 only. No links for Win64.
Which downloads page? Ours or others'?
All in all, it feels as if somebody actually wanted to sabotage the thing, he could score an A+ job as it stands already.
What I see above is it's in our power to fix https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7044 and that would benefit not only curl but other libs as well.
Andrei
