Getting back into translating the Win32 headers - anyone?

[Stewart Gordon]

Don Clugston wrote:
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>> (a) If the whole point of a module is to import other modules, then
>> obviously the imports have to be public.
>> (b) If qwert.h doesn't include yuiop.h, but yuiop.d is required for
>> qwert.d to compile, then the import should be private.
>> (c) This leaves the general case where a C header includes another.
>>
>> Should we make imports of kind (c) public or private?  Moreover, should
>> we declare (b) and (c) imports using "private import" or simply "import"?
> 
> I think (c) should be private, except in a few rare cases where they are 
> 'top-level' modules that do nothing except publically import other 
> modules.

By (c), I actually meant that which doesn't fit under (a) or (b).  I 
can't think of any instances in which a module does nothing but imports 
other modules but that isn't the whole point of the module.

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>> We've less than 30 days to get it done and dusted if we're going to
>> submit a full translation for DMD 1.0.  Even better would be if it can
>> be got done by the time I go back to my immediate family for Christmas
>> around the 20th.  So come on guys!

Good to know you're still here.  You used to be one of the most active 
contributors to this project.  Hope you really are back!

Stewart.