[darcs-users] do we still need libwww support?

[Dmitry Kurochkin]

Hi Petr.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> wrote:
>> The motivation behind libwww support is less clear.  I suspect it may
>> have been something to do with pipelining (which I understand libcurl
>> supports).
> Pipelining, plus it's impossible to make proper static binaries with libcurl,
> but it's doable with libwww, without resorting to (slow) haskell HTTP library.

Why is it impossible to make static binaries with libcurl? IIRC I was
able to make one under both linux and windows.

Regards,
  Dmitry