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

[David Simcha]

This looks terrific.  I've always found the old std.process to be way
underpowered, especially on Windows.  Does your statement about
cross-platformness imply that Windows will eventually be supported, too?

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <lars at kyllingen.net
> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:04 -0400, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> > I actually use it (which is why I duplicated your bug), but am OK with
> > removing it, since it is easy enough to get at anyway. For a while, I
> > did a separate extern(C) for pclose anyway!
> >
> > However, I don't think something being POSIX only is a good reason to
> > remove something. D should take advantages of whatever platform it is
> > on. Portability is good when you can have it, but it shouldn't be a
> > function killer alone.
>
> Two comments:
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
>  http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html
>
> The POSIX implementation is more or less complete, but its inclusion in
> Phobos is currently being blocked by bug 3979.  Also, Steve has run into
> some very tricky issues with pipes on Windows, fundamentally caused by
> D's dependence on the DMC runtime.  I don't know how (or if) that is
> working out.
>
> -Lars
>
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