Re: Downloading Files in D
On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 22:23:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The curl one should be easiest for just downloading files. The big problems with it are that it can be a pain to get the library working with versioning and stuff and that it sometimes does the wrong thing in advanced use cases. But if the curl library works for you at all, doing downloading with it is easy. Ok, thanks.
Re: Downloading Files in D
On 11/09/14 00:05, Nordlöw wrote: I'm asking because I've read somewhere that there have been complaints about the curl wrapper. If you don't want to worry about dependencies on libcurl you can use Tango [1] [2]. You can see how I use Tango to download files in DVM [3] [1] https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2 [2] http://siegelord.github.io/Tango-D2/tango.net.http.HttpGet.html [3] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm/blob/master/dvm/commands/Fetch.d#L80 -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: Downloading Files in D
On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 14:30:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: If you don't want to worry about dependencies on libcurl you can use Tango [1] [2]. You can see how I use Tango to download files in DVM [3] Ok, thanks. And I guess vibe.d can do this aswell without external dependencies, right?
Re: Downloading Files in D
On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 17:37:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: Ok, thanks. And I guess vibe.d can do this aswell without external dependencies, right? I'm also interested to know how this can be done with vibe.d...
Re: Downloading Files in D
On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 17:37:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 14:30:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: If you don't want to worry about dependencies on libcurl you can use Tango [1] [2]. You can see how I use Tango to download files in DVM [3] Ok, thanks. And I guess vibe.d can do this aswell without external dependencies, right? Didn't test but I found this: http://vibed.org/api/vibe.inet.urltransfer/download Vibe does by default depend on a few other libraries though. Libevent, OpenSSL, maybe others..
Re: Downloading Files in D
The curl one should be easiest for just downloading files. The big problems with it are that it can be a pain to get the library working with versioning and stuff and that it sometimes does the wrong thing in advanced use cases. But if the curl library works for you at all, doing downloading with it is easy.
