Re: [Haskell-cafe] download, download-curl ...

keithshep:

Hello Cafe,

I'm looking to make it possible for people to use urls directly in my haskell program (TxtSushi) and I'd like your suggestions if you have any. I really like the API's for download and download-curl, but I'm wondering what the practical differences are between the two? Is download-curl a replacement for download? Will it build OK on any platform or do I have to use something like the HTTP library if I want it to work for people with Windows? (I really like the fact that the "download" APIs support FTP too though)

They're essentially identical, but under the hood one is using curl, one is using libdownload. libdownload isn't really portable outside of linux. -- Don