On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 11:17:32 UTC, Mike wrote:
Is the concept of a *window* even that platform agnostic?
Is writeln even platform agnostic? I've used targets where it doesn't do anything.... including Microsoft Windows with the gui subsystem.
Generally, I think it is a mistake to reject something that is good for a great many users just because it isn't available everywhere. If it isn't right for your target, just don't use it.
I would caution against requiring the support libs in Phobos; we don't want programs to fail to start because Xlib isn't installed, for example. But there's ways to do that.
I thought that was mostly a desktop metaphor.
Any call to a create window function might fail at runtime, on a platform with no graphics support, all window creation can throw an exception. On a platform with just one screen, any beyond the first might throw.
A gui toolkit would probably need to do something about that to keep things like pop-up message and dialog boxes working, but for the basic stuff just saying it might throw should be good enough.
