WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Dmitry Olshansky]

11/25/2012 3:05 AM, Manu пишет:
> On 24 November 2012 23:18, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
> <mailto:andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I used to be *for* putting WinAPI bindings into druntime/phobos. But
>     seeing how some pull requests take months to be merged, and Walter's
>     ultra stance on not adding any aliases that help with code readability
>     (A vs W functions), and the obsessive requirement for Phobos to be
>     composed out of massive single modules, I'm beginning to think that
>     keeping the API out of Phobos might actually be a good idea.
>
>
> I'm sure it would be merged. And aren't the windows bindings in druntime?
> WINAPI is decades old, it will never change, it will never need revision
> after being done properly. I think it's safe to have in the std library
> (and it's already there, it's just incomplete).

WINAPI is growing constantly. Take a look:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh920508(v=vs.85).aspx

That's only the ones starting on W added in Vista vs XP:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh920517(v=vs.85).aspx

So you can't sync once and forget.
More importantly one can't hope to test them all properly after 
translation. (I mean as in mapped properly not for their functionality 
that's M$ job).
Basically it's a constant job for someone motivated. If we put it in 
druntime we need to keep an unconstrained flow of fixes/updates from 
authors.

>
> The A/W matter... I really think the version should be respected and the
> aliases maintained.
> You can't make a change like that after decades because you think you
> know better... Win32 is effectively a legacy API, and people have
> decades of experience, and existing code written with it.
>

Just make sure *-W is the default alias as UTF-16 is what the kernel 
uses internally anyway. (or a lame subset of UTF-16)

>     Here's a crazy thought: if WinAPI is needed by Phobos functions why
>     not just distribute WinAPI with the zipped distribution? You could put
>     it in a special subfolder, e.g.:
>
>     dmd2/src/dmd
>     dmd2/src/druntime
>     dmd2/src/phobos
>     dmd2/src/bindings <-- put it in here
>
>     And then in sc.ini or dmd.conf add an import to the bindings folder,
>     and distribute a precompiled static library of the bindings alongside
>     phobos.lib. The -version switches might have to be sorted out, but
>     that has to be a simpler problem than rewriting bindings from scratch.
>
>
> They're already in core.sys.windows, that's a perfectly good place for it.
+1
Looking a WINAPI bindings project I couldn't help but wonder why it's 
not pulled into druntime or is a part of druntime. Guess that must be 
license issues?

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Dmitry Olshansky