Yet another effort at translating the Win32 API headers

[jcc7]

In article <e0tm7q$mbn$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
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>jcc7 wrote:
>> In article <e0rfim$145j$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
>>> J C Calvarese wrote:
>>>> In article <e0n1kg$14b8$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
>>> <snip>
>>>>> - arcane, undocumented features, e.g.  version (STANDALONE) in Core32
>>>> There's a simple purpose for version(STANDALONE), but it might be controversial.
>>> The real problem is that nobody seems to know what that simple purpose is.
>> 
>> Firstly, I thought I answered your question about this back in 2005.
>> 
>> Your question: 
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/15262
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>Sorry I'd half forgotten about that thread.  But it certainly ought to 
>be in project documentation and not just one or two newsgroup posts.

You're right, and it is in the documentation now. I thought it was already
there, but I was wrong.


>> But I'll try to do a better job of explaining...
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>> *What does version(STANDALONE) do?*
>> 
>> Core32 is meant to complement Phobos. 
>> 
>> If someone doesn't want to import std.c.windows.windows, they would compile with 
>> the version=STANDALONE set.
>> 
>> The default (compiling without the STANDALONE version set) has many of the
>> conflicts with Phobos versioned out. 
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>I see.  So there's a difference in purpose between the two efforts. 
>Mine is intended to be a full translation of the Windows API headers 
>that might one day be able to replace std.c.windows.windows.

And hopefully we can get Walter to accept it when it's complete. And update it
if someone finds a little room for improvement later.

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>> Actually, what Don is doing in the Bindings project is probably the best 
>> solution until you get your SVN problem solved (assuming there is a fix).
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>I'm not sure what you mean.  By "what Don is doing" do you mean 
>committing updates to that project on my behalf?

Yes, that's what I mean. Sorry if it sounded enigmatic.

jcc7