On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:36:15AM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
David,
on a whim I took a look at your website, and came across darcs, which it is claimed is: (a) written in Haskell, and (b) uses libcurl
Does this mean you have a Haskell binding for libcurl? If so, it it for just GHC, or is it a fully-generalized FFI with (say) Hugs support as well?
Well, I have a very limited binding to libcurl, that's actually a bit ugly. I use ffi, and wrote two functions in C. One initializes curl, and saves a curl handle in a static global variable (so that curl can use a single http session for several file downloads). Another downloads a URL and saves it as a file. This second function involves four separate libcurl calls. For me (and perhaps for most libcurl users) this is enough.
Does it work for Windows as well as Unix/Linux?
Yes. -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org