[phobos] std.process deprecations

Andrei Alexandrescu via phobos phobos at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 7 12:02:59 PDT 2014


On 8/7/14, 11:47 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad via phobos wrote:
> I don't think we should provide that functionality on Windows at all,
> because it would just be a thin wrapper around the following:
>
>      spawnProcess(...);
>      _exit(0);
>
> Keeping it around will just confuse people into thinking that it does
> something more or different.

I think this becomes a documentation matter. Please accompany the 
deprecation with documentation indicating how people can achieve effects 
similar, but not identical, to exec*() on Windows.

Andrei



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