Jacob Champion:
However, if the other deps are considered problematic as well, then the
ship has already sailed, and there is not point for a special case here
anymore.
I think this line of argument is unlikely to find traction. Upthread
there were people asking if we could maybe split out other
possibly-unused dependencies in the future, like Kerberos.
Well, yes, that's kind of what I'm saying. There shouldn't be a special case for cURL, but those other deps should be handled equally as well.
And if that means making libpq modular at run-time, then this should be planned and built with all deps, and other use-cases (like static linking) in mind - and not like it is right now.
Best,
Wolfgang
