phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Ecstatic Coder]

> There will always be inherent differences between platforms, 
> because they are wildly different.

Right.

Technically the PS2 console, the GameCube and the Xbox console 
were very different from each other, so I had no choice but to 
implement low-level abstraction function (GetPhysicalPath() etc) 
to make the file system classes work similarly across all four 
systems.

That wasn't an easy task, but it made the life so much easier for 
the game programmers that it was obvious this was "the right 
thing" to do.

The fact that D's standard library has already bitten me several 
time with its platform specific problem clearly shows that you 
have chosen another path.

That's your right, but don't expect those who develop 
cross-platform tools in D to be happy to HAVE to put ugly 
"version ( ... )" stuff in their code when their software 
suddenly break on some platforms for unknown (= undocumented) 
reasons...