On 12/26/12, Phil Lavoie <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes sense, do you know of any plans to merge those with the dmd > distributables?
It was discussed many times. I don't know if the Phobos team is willing to merge the dsource.org WinAPI in its current layout. WinAPI has aliases to Ascii/Unicode versions of functions which they don't like (or maybe it's just Walter who doesn't like it), and it has a directory and file structure. Putting this whole API into a single file would be insane (it would be a 70.000 lines file). And the other problem is that currently DMD is distributed with all header and binary files for all OSes, so adding WinAPI would increase the size of the .zip file. We should have separate packages for each OS, but Walter is in charge of making them so I don't know when things will improve. Personally I'm tired of discussing this as the discussions always reach a stale-mate.
