October 12, 2006
Hi!

I looked into the phobos docs the other day, found std.system and after trying it out I learned an interesting fact: My Windows 2000 has version 4.0 and is, in fact, Windows XP (maybe because my program was compiled with DMD 0.0 - sorry for being sarcastic, but it seems that Phobos isn't really that accurate when it comes to version numbers). After having a closer look at system.d I understand that it would always report Windows XP 4.0.

Isn't it kind of pointless and counter-productive to have std.system in Phobos if it doesn't do anything at all besides initializing to impossible defaults? I think it should be removed for now, until it's at least somewhat useful and doesn't promise to do something that isn't implemented. Or at least make a note in the docs that it is currently a placeholder.

-Mike

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