What on earth is std.windows.d?

[bobef]

jcc7 wrote:
> In article <du77vk$1lcu$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, bobef says...
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> 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...
>> What about this - http://int19h.tamb.ru/ ? Is it illegal too?
> 
> I don't think there are any legal problems with DedicateD's headers but Pavel hasn't updated them since several years ago. And they do need some updating. Pavel isn't going to do it since he's lost interest in D. Also, Tomino's project and Core32 have a lot more of the headers covered, but (as has been pointed out) those projects have legal issues.

At least they are much more complete that ones that ship with dmd...