# std: different mechanism for disabling network dependency · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
std: different mechanism for disabling network dependency

On Windows, it is sometimes problematic to depend on ws2_32.dll. Before,
users of std.Io.Threaded would have to call ioBasic() rather than io()
in order to avoid unnecessary dependencies on ws2_32.dll. Now, the
application can disable networking with std.Options.

This change is necessary due to moving networking functionality to
be based on Io.Operation, which is a tagged union.

```

## Parents

- [9c9af37a0c7324859727c9dbe5c080e966e38bde](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/9c9af37a0c7324859727c9dbe5c080e966e38bde?format=markdown)

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