A gentle critque..

[jcc7]

In article <e4c2nn$20c9$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Don Clugston says...
>
>Walter Bright wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> The Windows API project
>>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
>>> is well on the way towards converting all of the Windows API headers 
>>> (including DirectX) into D. Stewart Gordon has done a great job of 
>>> ensuring that this will be the definitive translation in D, and many 
>>> of these types of problems will disappear once this project is 
>>> complete, because we'll have a standard code base to improve.
>> 
>> I agree. That project is a first rate example of what the D community 
>> can do in a collaborative effort. Kudos to all involved with it.
>
>We'll also need updated versions of the Windows import libs (since the 
>ones provided with D don't have the recent functions). Do you have a 
>license to redistribute the more recent ones?

Also, you might be able to use these .def files that I came up with to create
lib files:
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/bindings/trunk/def/


>Secondly, do you think it would be possible to use pragma(lib) to 
>eliminate the concept of 'default libraries' at least for the Windows 
>headers?
>It seems to me that that's another C/C++ annoyance that D could abolish.

That sounds like a good idea.

jcc7