[OT] Regarding most used operating system among devs

Charles via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 9 05:47:15 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 16:13:22 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 16:08:44 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> So who is going to do the pull request? One of those Linux 
>> developers I presume? :)
>
> I actually came close to it, but it ended up being a bit of a 
> pain. The easiest thing would be to just shove the win32.* 
> packages in the zip, but then you ahve the hassle of HANDLE 
> being different in core.sys.windows.windows and win32... and I 
> wanted to merge them but it wasn't as easy as it should be, 
> then other stuff came up.
>
> But maybe the path of least resistance is worth doing. Or 
> perhaps the core.sys.windows could simply import win32 instead 
> of adapting them.... hmmm. That's tempting.
>
> tho then I hit the problem of me having three jobs already and 
> don't have a lot of time

I'm of the opposite end, where I have the time; however, I don't 
understand exactly what needs done. I've been meaning to get more 
familiar with the Win32 API anyhow. Perhaps we could tag team 
this? Feel free to get a hold of me if you're interested.


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