Status of Deimos bindings

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 26/05/2015 7:24 p.m., ketmar wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2015 15:51:20 +1200, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>
>> Really what needs to happen is getting Derelict-Util into phobos. And
>> some CTFE magic to create static bindings from those (if wanted).
>>
>>   From there its just port the derelict libraries and deimos ones to it
>> and PR for phobos.
>
> actually, converting Derelict back to "header bindings" is fairly easy,
> and can be done with sed. i did that for SDL and some others.
>
>> Perhaps bindings shouldn't go through the review process. After all
>> there isn't exactly bugs that can be introduced from it.
>
> ah... Xlib bindings was all the way wrong both with `wchar_t` functions
> and with enum types. first took me the whole day to understand why i see
> no text at all, and second took me even more days to understand why XIM
> calls doesn't fail, but not doing what they should. mechanically
> translated defines with L becomes longs instead of c_longs (ints,
> actually, on my x86), and that broke variadic args XIM call.
>
> so i believe that bindings should be reviewed *very* carefully. actually,
> bindings is the last place where people look for possible bugs,
> especially if those are "officially blessed bindings".

What I meant was the normal review queue process. It still should be 
reviewed, but more on pull request type of deal.