Is it a good idea that use reqwest instead of curl?

[PeterlitsZo]

Problem

Cargo currently depends on curl / curl-sys (and also git2-curl) for HTTP functionality.

The question is: Is it a good idea that use reqwest?

Proposed Solution

No response

Notes

No response

[arlosi]

It's a good idea, however, there is a significant amount of existing code that's built on top of curl in Cargo reqwest is far from a drop-in replacement.

One of the first steps to making it possible is #16745, but there would still be significant follow up work.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to close this issue for now. It's possible we'll revisit this in the future.