On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:37 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Jonas Drewsen: > >>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?< > > What I think is acceptable is to put now the binary of the Windows library > inside the zip of the DMD distribution. Once that decent package management > tool will be present and working on Windows, you will be free to remove the > binary lib, if you want (but I suggest to not do it, because D std library is > suppsed to have few batteries included, and today accessing the web is a > basic need. Maybe even the package management tool needs a curl to download > the files, so we are back to the start). > > ---------------- > > dsimcha: > >>Also, anyone have any luck getting Curl libs to work with DMD on Windows? >>The binaries available at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html look like they're >>COFF. (<rant> Why do we still use freakin' OMF? </rant>) Also, the source >>doesn't look like it's pleasant to compile.< > > See my answer above :-) If I want to use DMD to write a 20 lines long > script-line program I will not compile a C lib (and probably a 200 lines long > program too). > > Bye, > bearophile >
If you're writing a 20 line long script why are you not using a language more suited to the task like python, perl, lua, ruby or hell php? I don't see this as a good reason to bring a third party dependency into phobos, especially something so tangential to everything as curl. Accessing the web is a basic need solved by having a solid core sockets and streams implementation, which we don't have. Curl is just another library binding as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, Josh.
