Windows API and druntime/Phobos

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 20:38:01 Don wrote:
> Please note that the Win32 API project on dsource was created with the
> explicit intention of including it in Phobos. See bug 317.

Good to know. I would point out though that for the most part, std.c has been 
being phased out with all of its parts being moved to Phobos, so I'm not sure 
that putting the Win32 API bindings in std.c.windows makes sense.

Regardless, my point is that we need to figure out what we want to do at this 
point. As it stands, we end up with pull requests such as

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/139

which just add more bindings which a particular programmer happens to want. 
And while that might be okay in the short term, that doesn't work in the long 
term. We need to decide where we want the Win32 API bindings, how we want them 
organized more or less, and start putting them there. The Win32 API project is 
a great start, but it's been around for years without being moved into 
druntime or Phobos, and we should start looking at moving those bindings into 
either druntime or Phobos. At this point, given that they're OS bindings, and 
the OS bindings have been going in druntime, I would expect them to go into 
druntime. But a decision must be made, or the situation won't improve.

- Jonathan M Davis