What on earth is std.windows.d?

[Don Clugston]

Charles wrote:
>  > Definately.  I don't suppose someone wants to attempt a port? :-)
>  > Automation is on my to-do list, but it's pretty low at the moment.
> 
> 
> Y.Tomino has had automated translation for win32 SDK for some time so 
> its probably mature :
> 
> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA028375/d/windows.h.html
> 
> 
> He seems to have stopped at DMD .95 , probably wouldnt take a whole lot 
> to bring it up to date though .

I've just found that core32 on dsource.org seems to be reawakening; the 
problem with Tomino's code (and also the one used in DWT) is that they 
are using the Windows SDK. That is not legal, AFAIK, so we'll have to 
use the mingw ones instead (at least for anything that's in a standard 
library.

Had a look at the converter -- written in Perl, with comments in 
Japanese. My worst nightmare. <g>

If we're to have D regexps that are good enough to replace scripting 
languages, this is something that has to be done in D...