setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
>>Indeed, libcurl was one which came to mind.
>>I've yet to play with it, but one thing I'm a little worried about is it
>>being *too* extensive - I don't want setup.exe to grow very much.
> 
> Sure, that's a concern.  However current setup.exe is only ~270kb when
> stripped, and even if that, say, doubled I don't see what the big deal
> would be.  It seems to me that being anorexic about the .exe size at the
> cost of robust net/url code is a premature optimization.

Is it already compressed (ie. upx executable compressor)?  It reduces 
size and works stand-alone with built-in decompressor.

Gerrit
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