Quick question:  Should the functions in std.file have a common "Phobos behaviour" across platforms, or should they have the default/expected behaviour for each platform?

Example:
std.file.copy() for Windows uses the Windows API, and thus I assume it
behaves in the way Windows users expect.  On POSIX, however, it uses a
home-brewed implementation, which does not behave completely like the
'cp' command.  (See bug 3862, which is what got me thinking about this.)

-Lars

IMHO, since the whole point of std.file is to wrap OS-specific APIs in something OS-agnostic, the results of std.file.copy() should be as consistent as possible across OS's.  If you want to rely on the behavior of a specific platform, then you should use that platform's API directly.

On 5/27/2010 3:31 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> Quick question:  Should the functions in std.file have a common "Phobos behaviour" across platforms, or should they have the default/expected behaviour for each platform?
>
> Example:
> std.file.copy() for Windows uses the Windows API, and thus I assume it
> behaves in the way Windows users expect.  On POSIX, however, it uses a
> home-brewed implementation, which does not behave completely like the
> 'cp' command.  (See bug 3862, which is what got me thinking about this.)
>
> -Lars
>
>
>
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