Does that mean you figured out the whole FILE* <--> HANDLE thing? If so, that's awesome!
-Lars On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 07:28 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote: > I have a fully compiling Windows version ready to test, but issue 3979 > blocks that. I didn't have the patience that Lars had to build it > outside of phobos, so I just put it on hold for now :) But yes, > everything that std.process supports will be doable on both phobos and > Windows with a common interface. There will be one minor difference > -- Windows has a GUI flag that prevents a console window from > appearing. This is important to people who are running programs they > don't want to pop up temporary console windows. > > This flag simply won't be defined in POSIX. > > -Steve > > > > From: David Simcha <[email protected]> > To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 10:11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [phobos] Removing std.stdio.File.popen() > > This looks terrific. I've always found the old std.process to > be way underpowered, especially on Windows. Does your > statement about cross-platformness imply that Windows will > eventually be supported, too? > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad > <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:04 -0400, Adam Ruppe wrote: > > I actually use it (which is why I duplicated your > bug), but am OK with > > removing it, since it is easy enough to get at > anyway. For a while, I > > did a separate extern(C) for pclose anyway! > > > > However, I don't think something being POSIX only is > a good reason to > > remove something. D should take advantages of > whatever platform it is > > on. Portability is good when you can have it, but it > shouldn't be a > > function killer alone. > > > Two comments: > > 1. I disagree with you. :) I think that Phobos' > user-visible interface > should be completely platform agnostic. Code that > depends only on > Phobos should compile and run on any platform. > > 2. Steve and I have been working on a new version of > std.process, which > will at some point, hopefully, obviate the need for > popen(). See > pipeProcess() here: > > http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html > > The POSIX implementation is more or less complete, but > its inclusion in > Phobos is currently being blocked by bug 3979. Also, > Steve has run into > some very tricky issues with pipes on Windows, > fundamentally caused by > D's dependence on the DMC runtime. I don't know how > (or if) that is > working out. > > -Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
