Philosophy of how OS API imports are laid out in druntime

[Iain Buclaw]

On 5 March 2014 17:16, Regan Heath <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:09:46 -0000, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> This is an important debate going on here:
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/732
>>
>> It has a wide impact, and so I'm bringing it up here so everyone can
>> participate.
>
>
>
> The disagreement here seems to boil down to two competing goals.
>
> 1. Walter wants the C include to map directly to a D import.
> 2. Sean wants to be able to ensure he does not import and use a platform
> specific function/definiton in a cross platform application.
>
> Is that about right?

3. Iain wants to be able to ensure ports of druntime (ARM, MIPS,
SPARC, etc...) are conveniently - as in not complex - split up without
introducing a new namespace.

:o)