[phobos] Removing std.stdio.File.popen()

[Adam Ruppe]

On 8/16/10, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <lars at kyllingen.net> wrote:
> 1. I disagree with you. :)  I think that Phobos' user-visible interface
> should be completely platform agnostic.  Code that depends only on
> Phobos should compile and run on any platform.

That would be nice, and usually can be done. But anyway, we can just
have our difference in opinion here. It isn't hard to use the C
library directly in most the platform specific places, including here.

> 2. Steve and I have been working on a new version of std.process, which
> will at some point, hopefully, obviate the need for popen().  See
> pipeProcess() here:

That looks awesome!