The new, new phobos sneak preview

[Anders F Björklund]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I just committed all of Phobos into svn on dsource.org. That is not an
> official release and has known and unknown bugs, limitations, and
> rhinodemons. I expect some ripples before we stabilize, but when we will
> we'll stabilize at a higher potential.

Will the final release support "osx" [sic] and "freebsd" too,
or is the new Phobos going to be "Windows" and "linux" only ?

> If you want to build Phobos yourself, check out the Makefile (not
> linux.mak; that won't work). That GNU Makefile, hosted on Linux, can
> build the Linux lib and also the Windows lib by using wine. (I'm very
> happy about this; now I can test on Windows and Linux without switching
> more than a command line tweak.)

For instance, things like these look a bit hardcoded to linux:
EXTRA_MODULES_posix = $(addprefix std/c/linux/, linux socket)

--anders