I have a fully compiling Windows version ready to test, but issue 3979 blocks that. I didn't have the patience that Lars had to build it outside of phobos, so I just put it on hold for now :) But yes, everything that std.process supports will be doable on both phobos and Windows with a common interface. There will be one minor difference -- Windows has a GUI flag that prevents a console window from appearing. This is important to people who are running programs they don't want to pop up temporary console windows.
This flag simply won't be defined in POSIX. -Steve > >From: David Simcha <[email protected]> >To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]> >Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 10:11:40 AM >Subject: Re: [phobos] Removing std.stdio.File.popen() > >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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