[Issue 16291] phobosinit fails to register encodings on individual tests

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16291

--- Comment #3 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Ketmar Dark from comment #2)
> aha. i see.
> 
> the thing is that std.internal.phobosinit is not imported from anywhere, so
> linker simply not including it in resulting executable!
> 

Well... That's weird.

I assumed module ctors would still be included, even if not imported. How the
hell does vibe.d work, where everything is set up in a module ctor?

> 
> i.e. we have to do "import std.internal.phobosinit;" in "std.encoding". but
> that defeats the purpose of moving the whole thing to separate module, i
> guess.

Yes, it does. I purposely removed all imports of phobosinit (was called
processinit, and std.process imported it) to avoid cycles.

> what was the idea behind moving that initialization to separate module? it
> seems that leaving it in std.encoding is not conflicting with anything: not
> one of phobos modules that imports "std.encoding" has module ctors.

There was a cycle between std.encoding and something else. The easiest thing to
do was to remove the constructors.

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