WindowsAPI as dub package

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 12:10:05 UTC, Paul Z. Barsan 
wrote:
> I've recently used cairoD for drawing and I thought it would be 
> nice to have support for win32 surfaces. In order to add 
> support for this feature I need a winapi-d package for dub.So 
> far I've found some personal mirrors and clones on github such 
> as:
>
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI
> https://github.com/CS-svnmirror/dsource-bindings-win32
>
> but so far nobody dares to maintain a big pkg like this. Are 
> there more experienced users willing to do this ?

Does Dub support Git submodules (can it clone Git repositories 
with --recursive)? If so, you could create a Dub package with a 
submodule which tracks the master branch of the 
dsource-bindings-win32 mirror.

> The main problem is that the development still takes place on 
> dsource.org.

I think the long-term plan is to move the entire bindings (sans 
DirectX, probably) into Druntime. But it's a good deal of work 
(esp. considering backwards compatibility with the existing 
declarations) and no one has done it yet.