On 24 November 2012 21:32, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/24/2012 10:45 AM, Manu wrote: > >> I'm regularly annoyed by the quality of the druntime windows bindigs. I >> use this >> one: >> http://www.dsource.org/**projects/bindings/wiki/**WindowsApi<http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi> >> It's better. >> >> I don't think there's really any room for opinion on the topic, the >> windows >> bindings should simply be complete, and correct. >> It's a flat C api, I can't imagine anything in there that doesn't >> translate to D >> well. >> > > You can always simply add the ones you need to druntime, and issue a pull > request. Sure, but that's rather time consuming, and the other library I linked is pretty decent. I'm just supporting the case that more thorough support in druntime would be warmly welcomed :) As said before, the only details that might require some discussion are the >> handling of the windows version macro, and the unicode macro. >> I would personally just expect to use them exactly as they are in C, and >> expect >> the user to supply the appropriate versions to D when compiling. >> > > I'd forget about the unicode macro, and call the A or W versions > explicitly. > This causes rather annoying issues while porting, and tutorials becomes obscured. Many novice programmers don't understand that most functions are an alias of *A/*U, will be confused by the errors, and I even know many programmers who don't understand what unicode is, therefore don't understand the decision they are making. I think the aliases are important, they allow tutorials and novice users to continue to work effectively.
