future of std.process?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:47:53 -0500, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:10:23 +0100, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
>
>> Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:51:18 +0100, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some time ago a new std.process branch was made, which included
>>>> support for pipes. Is there still a plan to integrate this in phobos?
>>>> Does it depend on a decision regarding the io design?
>>>
>>> That is still the plan, yes.  The new std.process is pretty much done,
>>> and has been for a while, but its incorporation in Phobos is being
>>> blocked by bug 3979.  (The bug was fixed a while ago, but the changes
>>> were almost immediately reverted by another bug fix...)
>>>
>>> -Lars
>>
>> Thanks. I've noticed your personal copy at github, is it useable in the
>> meantime? It doesn't suffer from the same issue?
>
> Yes, it works (and I just uploaded some minor changes that I had in my
> local repo).  Bug 3979 only sets in once you try to name the module
> "std.process" and compile it together with the rest of Phobos.  Note that
> the code in my github repo is for POSIX only.  Steven Schveighoffer has
> done the Windows work, and I don't have his code.

That reminds me, I should make sure that doesn't get lost, it's not  
checked in anywhere...

Maybe I should send you my code.

-Steve