• Gary Willoughby (5/5) Jul 07 2012 What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the
• Kevin Cox (4/5) Jul 07 2012 phobos library?
• Gary Willoughby (1/5) Jul 07 2012 Ah, right.
• Denis Shelomovskij (9/16) Jul 08 2012 No, it was a bug in AutoTester. Se discussion at pull 613:

"Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net> writes:

What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the 
Windows phobos library? I've added it and recompiled phobos for 
use but i just wondered why it was missing?

For others i blogged how to recompile with curl support here:

http://kalekold.net/index.php?post=19

Kevin Cox <kevincox.ca gmail.com> writes:

On Jul 7, 2012 8:45 AM, "Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net> wrote:
 What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the Windows

phobos library?

IIRC it is licencing issues, they can't include curl in the distribution
without certain requirements that were deemed to awkward to implement.

"Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net> writes:

 IIRC it is licencing issues, they can't include curl in the 
 distribution
 without certain requirements that were deemed to awkward to 
 implement.

Ah, right.

Denis Shelomovskij <verylonglogin.reg gmail.com> writes:

07.07.2012 17:11, Kevin Cox пишет:
 On Jul 7, 2012 8:45 AM, "Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net
 <mailto:dev kalekold.net>> wrote:
  >
  > What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the Windows
 phobos library?

 IIRC it is licencing issues, they can't include curl in the distribution
 without certain requirements that were deemed to awkward to implement.

No, it was a bug in AutoTester. Se discussion at pull 613:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/613

CURL licence permits us from including CURL _binaries_ only so one have 
to download it manually from "Other Downloads" section of
http://dlang.org/download.html

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Денис В. Шеломовский
Denis V. Shelomovskij