What on earth is std.windows.d?

[AgentOrange]

In article <du6s62$14pi$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Don Clugston says...
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>std.windows.d is really bizarre. It has many missing APIs, even some 
>from the early days of Windows.
>For example, it has GlobalUnlock(), but not GlobalLock().
>I found I had to add some function prototypes just so I could copy text 
>to the clipboard!
>eg, EmptyClipboard(), CloseClipboard() which I suspect date from Windows 
>1.0.
>
>I believe that legal issues prevent redistribution of the Windows SDK, 
>but at least we could use the public domain files from the w32api project?
>
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mingw/w32api/#dirlist
>
>I realise that anyone doing serious Windows programming is going to want 
>the lastest SDK; but unsophisticated users should be able to use D 
>out-of-the-box.
>
>Bit of a 1.0 showstopper, I think. There doesn't seem to be much point 
>in including a windows.d that is so incomplete. Where did it come from?
>It should at least have all the APIs that are over ten years old <g>.


Yeah its absolutely horrendous. I would almost prefer NOT to have a win32 api in
phobos than this broken inconsistent crap that doesnt play well with others....