Win32 headers: Problem with COM interface indirection levels

[Michael Butscher]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "Michael Butscher" <mbutscher at gmx.de> wrote in message 
> news:MPG.212522dc134a28d69896a8 at news.digitalmars.com...
> <snip>
> > This might be an indication that this part of the headers is currently
> > not used widely (maybe by some people changing their copy of the
> > headers privately). But the published version definitely can't work.
> 
> Which headers - std.c.windows or my project?

I meant your headers. The std.c.windows headers work.


> And if people are creating private forks of my project, why?  True, it's PD, 
> so who's to stop them, but what's to gain by doing this instead of 
> contributing to the project?

Well, laziness is part of human nature.

First one should ask if the changes made privately were done in the 
right way to not produce chaos in the repository.

One has to find the subversion URL (I really had some problems with 
this step), check out the files, change it, check if the testcompile 
script works (which it didn't in the past due to, AFAIR d3d9.d) and 
finally commit the changes.


[...]
> >> Also, maybe this question is better suited in the Bindings project 
> >> Dsource forum?
> >
> > You are right. I only found forums a bit impractical, but that's not a
> > good argument.
> 
> And I don't tend to read the Dsource forums....

With the bindings forum there is also the additional problem that it is 
used by multiple subprojects and one has to guess by subject line if 
the topic belongs to Windows bindings or something else.



Michael