New std.process revival

[Dejan Lekic]

On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 18:40:57 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to take a stab at reviving the new std.process 
> written by Lars T. Kyllingstad and Steven Schveighoffer.
>
> The result is here: 
> https://github.com/alexrp/phobos/tree/new-std-process-update
>
> I decided to extract the work into new commits because rebasing 
> the old branch in Lars's repo was way too cumbersome after so 
> many months (and that branch also had a lot of merge commits). 
> The code is obviously not written by me; all I did was a couple 
> of build and test fixes.
>
> It currently works on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux. It would be 
> great if someone could take it for a spin on OS X, FreeBSD, and 
> Windows to see how it fares there (I'm particularly worried 
> that I may have broken the Windows build).
>
> Lars or Steven, would either of you be willing to go through 
> the review process with this module? I sent the druntime 
> changes upstream a while back, so the Phobos changes are really 
> all that remain in order to have it included.

Alex, you rock! You have no idea how happy this makes me. 
std.process made by Lars and Steven was already awesome. It would 
be great if you guys work on it together and make it as 
stable/robust as it should be.