This looks terrific. I've always found the old std.process to be way underpowered, especially on Windows. Does your statement about cross-platformness imply that Windows will eventually be supported, too?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lars@kyllingen.net">lars@kyllingen.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:04 -0400, Adam Ruppe wrote:<br>
> I actually use it (which is why I duplicated your bug), but am OK with<br>
> removing it, since it is easy enough to get at anyway. For a while, I<br>
> did a separate extern(C) for pclose anyway!<br>
><br>
> However, I don't think something being POSIX only is a good reason to<br>
> remove something. D should take advantages of whatever platform it is<br>
> on. Portability is good when you can have it, but it shouldn't be a<br>
> function killer alone.<br>
<br>
</div>Two comments:<br>
<br>
1. I disagree with you. :) I think that Phobos' user-visible interface<br>
should be completely platform agnostic. Code that depends only on<br>
Phobos should compile and run on any platform.<br>
<br>
2. Steve and I have been working on a new version of std.process, which<br>
will at some point, hopefully, obviate the need for popen(). See<br>
pipeProcess() here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html" target="_blank">http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html</a><br>
<br>
The POSIX implementation is more or less complete, but its inclusion in<br>
Phobos is currently being blocked by bug 3979. Also, Steve has run into<br>
some very tricky issues with pipes on Windows, fundamentally caused by<br>
D's dependence on the DMC runtime. I don't know how (or if) that is<br>
working out.<br>
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-Lars<br>
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