[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: curlhs-0.0.1, bindings to libcurl

[Strake]

On 16/04/2012, Krzysztof Kardzis <kkardzis at gmail.com> wrote:
> In regard to the 'easy of use', I think it is just the opposite (of
> course we talk about the module 'Network.Curlhs.Core', not 'Base' -
> this is another story). But my opinion is not important here, and for
> that reason I don't want to compare these two packages by myself. If
> you are satisfied with the curl package, just stay with it, I've no
> arguments to convince you or anyone. Neverthless, thanks for your
> opinion.

Fair. I meant not to bash your work; I just wondered what property of
old curl binds you found suboptimal.

> Ok, why another bindings? There is no one big reason, only a few small
> ones. Overall, I think that these bindings could be done better, and I
> think that it will be easier to do that from scratch. If it succeeds,
> fine, if not... there is no such an option ;) Here is the first
> attempt.
>
> As I wrote earlier, I would like to create a mid-level interface to
> libcurl. The API should be fairly easy to use, fairly complete and
> close to the original. I would like to avoid too much interpretation
> of the libcurl's API (this could be done at the higher level). Thanks
> to that it will be possible among others to take advantage of the
> existing documentation, tutorials, examples etc.

Ah. If I read that right, you mean that old curl binds are not true
enough to the original curl interface.

Cheers,
strake