This message is mainly for Steve, but I thought I'd send it to everyone because it demonstrates how much more convenient it is to collaborate using Git.

The new std.process has lain dormant for a while, waiting for some DMD bugs to be fixed.  This has finally happened, and we can pick up where we left off.

So I forked the Phobos repo,

        https://github.com/kyllingstad/phobos

added a new branch, corresponding to a local branch on my computer,

        https://github.com/kyllingstad/phobos/tree/new-std-process

and finally I operated the changes locally and pushed to the Phobos fork:

        https://github.com/kyllingstad/phobos/commit/347ce117eb1e0bff94c4387a0f1599a31ef8374d

While I could have done all of the above before, what makes this so awesome is that I can now keep the development branch up-to-date with the main Phobos repository at all times.  (I tried the same with the devel/new-std-process branch in the old repo, and SVN borked the whole thing on the first merge.)


Steve, it should be all ready for you to pull my changes and add the Windows stuff at your convenience. :)

Note that I dropped the UnbufferedFile stuff and reverted to using File everywhere.  This is because a) Andrei has said he intends to add buffering control to File, and b) we may want to integrate pipes with the upcoming std.stream.  Is it OK with you if we go with File for the time being?


-Lars