On 16/08/11 22.39, bearophile wrote:
jdrewsen:
etc.c.curl is already in phobos and no binary library for curl is in.
I see. I didn't know this. Then it's the good moment to improve this situation.
I disagree on this one though. But please see my reply to jonathan as to
how I see final solution.
Most times I'll not use a Phobos module that to be used requires the
compilation of a multi-file C library. I use another language where this
functionality is already present, like this one:
http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
If a decent package management tool was added to D which could handle
downloading the binary lib for you then wouldn't that be an okey
solition for you?
Accessing the web from the language today is a basic feature, and quite more
commonly needed than as example complex numbers.
In Clojure even the Phobos equivalent of the File function loads from the web
if you give it an URL instead of a file path :-) Please help pushing D into
this decade.
I agree that this functionality should be a standard part of phobos (ie.
the 'std' package). It just has to be implemented in D and not just be a
wrapper. The way I would like it is to initially get a reactor/proactor
implemented into D and then on top of that a nice http/ftp/... client
and server API.
Wrappers should be handled by a package manager in my opinion.
/Jonas
Bye,
bearophile
