[phobos] Bug somewhere in core.posix.sys.time

[Walter Bright]

Phobos should not in any way require or rely on Cygwin, for a long list 
of reasons.

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Agreed.  I actually tried porting a large Unix app (Solaris/Linux) to Microsoft SUA once.  Simply getting it to build was a huge hassle and making it run correctly would have taken a bunch of recoding.  Between that and the abysmal command interface I really don't understand why MS bothers to maintain the thing at all.  Hm... what about Cygwin?  I suppose that might be another Windows/Posix platform?  Or is the OS "Cygwin" in that case?
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> On May 22, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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>> Sean Kelly wrote:
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>>> Windows is ostensibly posix-compliant, Ive just not bothered to add the defs.  The Windows posix subsystem ducks enough that there's really little point.
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>> The Windows posix subsystem is a kludge and an extra dll, and is often treated as a poor step-daughter by Microsoft. I strongly suggest we stay away from it. Phobos should use the native Windows APIs. I also do not want to encourage its use by providing a set of posix declarations for Windows as part of Phobos.
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