On 26/12/2012 20:22, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 12/26/12, Phil Lavoie <maidenp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Makes sense, do you know of any plans to merge those with the dmd
distributables?
It was discussed many times. I don't know if the Phobos team is
willing to merge the dsource.org WinAPI in its current layout.
WinAPI has aliases to Ascii/Unicode versions of functions which
they don't like (or maybe it's just Walter who doesn't like it),
Any recollection of why? Besides, if Walter just doesn't like these
aliases, he doesn't have to use them.
and it has a directory and file structure. Putting this whole API
into a single file would be insane (it would be a 70.000 lines
file). And the other problem is that currently DMD is distributed
with all header and binary files for all OSes, so adding WinAPI
would increase the size of the .zip file.
It seems common to bundle full Windows API headers with C(++) compilers
- indeed, even DMC seems to (though they seem to be very out of date).
So why not D compilers just as well?
We should have separate packages for each OS,
I agree.
but Walter is in charge of making them so I don't know when things
will improve.
Personally I'm tired of discussing this as the discussions always
reach a stale-mate.
Indeed, it's time a positive effort were made. At least for the time
being, document the incompleteness properly and in doing so point people
to the WindowsAPI project. I'll try and come up with a proposal for how
this should be done.
Stewart.
