The CAPI Manifesto

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:02:52 +0300, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> So I propose creating, on github.com/D-Programming-Language, a new  
> repository called CAPI.

Questions:

1) Will these be distributed with DMD? The bar to generate D import  
modules from C headers isn't much higher than having to find and download  
headers from the Internet.

2) This isn't too different to already existing projects. The bindings  
project on dsource ( http://dsource.org/projects/bindings ) already has  
bindings for various libraries. I can't say much about the project  
guidelines, though.

3) You suggest to place each library in its own directory, with C and D  
headers as subdirectories. This means that the user will still need to  
edit the import search path when using a new library. Is it realistic to  
put all D files in the same directory? (Perhaps do this only for libraries  
for which we don't expect name collisions?)

4) "Every effort will be made to avoid needing any D specific binary  
files." - What about import libraries?

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net