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?
On May 22, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > Sean Kelly wrote: >> 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. >> > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
