What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Marco Leise]

Am 04.08.2011, 18:42 Uhr, schrieb Graham Fawcett <fawcett at uwindsor.ca>:

> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:50:18 +0000, Mehrdad wrote:
>
>> More powerful regexes (like in .NET).
>>
>> The current one is pretty much unusable due to lack of support for
>> Unicode, and lacks lots of important features (named captures come to
>> mind).
>
> Just a thought -- libpcre is a very popular RE library, available under
> BSD. It has UTF-8 support, though not support for other Unicode  
> encodings.
> Google's pcrecpp wrapper might be a source of inspiration. Would a PCRE
> wrapper be suitable for Phobos?
>
> Graham

I wonder what the general consensus is on wrappers. Berkley Sockets are  
good, since all supported OSs implement that API somehow. But GUI, PCRE  
and others need libraries installed. In my perfect world there would be  
wrappers, but they would work with corresponding libraries on Windows and  
Posix bases OSs. The idea of package dependencies is just not wide-spread  
in the Windows world and installing pcre, gtk, cairo, ... together with D  
on Windows seems clumsy to me :D If these libraries aren't available on  
Windows then the second best is a unique D implementation.
If D was Linux only then I'd agree. I could understand if others say that  
the D installer for Windows could install those libraries as well.

Just my 2 cents