This looks terrific. I've always found the old std.process to be way underpowered, especially on Windows. Does your statement about cross-platformness imply that Windows will eventually be supported, too?
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <[email protected] > wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:04 -0400, Adam Ruppe wrote: > > I actually use it (which is why I duplicated your bug), but am OK with > > removing it, since it is easy enough to get at anyway. For a while, I > > did a separate extern(C) for pclose anyway! > > > > However, I don't think something being POSIX only is a good reason to > > remove something. D should take advantages of whatever platform it is > > on. Portability is good when you can have it, but it shouldn't be a > > function killer alone. > > Two comments: > > 1. I disagree with you. :) I think that Phobos' user-visible interface > should be completely platform agnostic. Code that depends only on > Phobos should compile and run on any platform. > > 2. Steve and I have been working on a new version of std.process, which > will at some point, hopefully, obviate the need for popen(). See > pipeProcess() here: > > http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html > > The POSIX implementation is more or less complete, but its inclusion in > Phobos is currently being blocked by bug 3979. Also, Steve has run into > some very tricky issues with pipes on Windows, fundamentally caused by > D's dependence on the DMC runtime. I don't know how (or if) that is > working out. > > -Lars > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos >
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