Windows API and druntime/Phobos

[Jonathan M Davis]

The level of support for the Windows API in druntime and Phobos is pretty low. 
As I understand it, Windows users are pretty much forced to use 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32 if they need 
comprehensive Win32 API bindings. druntime seems to be trying to define all of 
the OS-specific stuff like that, but on top of it missing much of it, in the 
case of the Win32 API, that's a _lot_ of functions, and I don't know if we 
want to put that much in druntime. So, the question is, how do we want to 
support the Win32 API in druntime and Phobos?

Do we want to put all of the Win32 API bindings in druntime? If not, then do 
we want to put them in Phobos? Or do we just want to send Windows developers 
to a 3rd party library like the Win32 bindings project on dsource? Given that 
they're OS bindings, I would _think_ that we'd want them in druntime, but I 
don't know.

Regardless, this is one of those issues which frequently plagues D Windows 
developers, and we really should at least get a plan together as to how we 
want to handle it.

- Jonathan M Davis


P.S. A related pull request: https://github.com/D-Programming-
Language/druntime/pull/139