Hi All,

I'm relatively new to D and it's supporting libs - sorry for dumb questions.

As I understand Phobos winapi support is still not complete. E.c. GetWindowLong and GetWindowLongPtr are missing. Is there any plans to reflect full windows api in std.c.windows? How about unicode support?

Yet I'm not quiet understand Phobos status. Is it only Walter who maintain/develop it? Whats the plans/roadmap for future?

What about Ares - it says it intend to be replacement for Phobos. Is it will be an official replacement - what Walter think of it? 'Official' is maybe not good word for it, what I mean is, currently to use Ares some hacks must be done. It seems dmd is not supposed to use anything in place of Phobos. Will it changes eventually?

Serg Kovrov wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm relatively new to D and it's supporting libs - sorry for dumb questions.
> 
> As I understand Phobos winapi support is still not complete. E.c. GetWindowLong and GetWindowLongPtr are missing. Is there any plans to reflect full windows api in std.c.windows? How about unicode support?

There have been a number of efforts to translate the Windows API headers.  See

http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/26225

> Yet I'm not quiet understand Phobos status. Is it only Walter who maintain/develop it? Whats the plans/roadmap for future?
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Maintain - yes.

Develop - not quite.

Stewart.

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> Whats the plans/roadmap for future?

Hopefully trash it , salvage the good parts, and make a new standard library , as soon as D stops adopting new features.

> currently to use Ares some
> hacks must be done. It seems dmd is not supposed to use anything in
> place of Phobos. Will it changes eventually?

What hacks ?  I think eventually Ares plans to be a full replacement to phobos.

"Serg Kovrov" <dyh@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:drqb2h$pab$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I'm relatively new to D and it's supporting libs - sorry for dumb questions.
>
> As I understand Phobos winapi support is still not complete. E.c. GetWindowLong and GetWindowLongPtr are missing. Is there any plans to reflect full windows api in std.c.windows? How about unicode support?
>
> Yet I'm not quiet understand Phobos status. Is it only Walter who maintain/develop it? Whats the plans/roadmap for future?
>
> What about Ares - it says it intend to be replacement for Phobos. Is it will be an official replacement - what Walter think of it? 'Official' is maybe not good word for it, what I mean is, currently to use Ares some hacks must be done. It seems dmd is not supposed to use anything in place of Phobos. Will it changes eventually?

In article <drqotu$1bks$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Charles says...
>
>> Whats the plans/roadmap for future?
>
>Hopefully trash it , salvage the good parts, and make a new standard library , as soon as D stops adopting new features.
>
>> currently to use Ares some
>> hacks must be done. It seems dmd is not supposed to use anything in
>> place of Phobos. Will it changes eventually?
>
>What hacks ?  I think eventually Ares plans to be a full replacement to phobos.

Eventually, yes. But not everything is in Ares yet that is in Phobos. This is being discussed in the Ares forum at dsource.

jcc7

jcc7 wrote:

> In article <drqotu$1bks$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Charles says...
>>
>>> Whats the plans/roadmap for future?
>>
>>Hopefully trash it , salvage the good parts, and make a new standard library , as soon as D stops adopting new features.
>>
>>> currently to use Ares some
>>> hacks must be done. It seems dmd is not supposed to use anything in
>>> place of Phobos. Will it changes eventually?
>>
>>What hacks ?  I think eventually Ares plans to be a full replacement to phobos.
> 
> Eventually, yes. But not everything is in Ares yet that is in Phobos. This is being discussed in the Ares forum at dsource.
> 
> jcc7

Ares at least got it's first version of io today, sean is really steaming up now.