WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 23:47:26 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Well it's one of the changes in the existing implementation 
> which I totally
> disagree with, for the reasons stated.

Could you be more specific? Is it that the Unicode version is not 
set by default? Considering that Druntime does not support 
Windows 9x, the default should probably be changed to use the 
Unicode APIs in the Druntime bindings.

> WIN32 has a heap of these HSOMETHING types, and they're all 
> implicitly
> convertible to HANDLE and should remain that way. Many 
> functions receive
> HANDLE's which it expects may be of any type. The Wait* suite 
> of functions
> for instance wait on basically anything.

Yes, all those should be aliases. Same with anything CloseHandle 
accepts.

> I'd be interested to hear arguments why you think any changes 
> of any sort
> should be made to a well established API that's decades old?

We have the opportunity to make nearly unilateral improvements to 
the experience of programming in Win32 in D. It does not need to 
involve "relearning" (I am no fool, of course I think breaking 
valid C code would be bad), however you seem to be categorically 
against it without even looking into it, based on principle. Such 
an approach to software development, or anything, is not 
constructive. We need to look and compare actual advantages and 
disadvantages.