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Use selective imports when importing platform-specific modules (core.sys) #20632
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Thanks for your pull request and interest in making D better, @Reavershark! We are looking forward to reviewing it, and you should be hearing from a maintainer soon.
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Is this ready for review? (Note that you don't have to do all platforms in one go, incremental work is usually preferred over huge Pull Requests) |
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I think it is. I rebased and will mark this as such once ci finishes.
I'll keep that in mind next time. |
Why
This makes it easier to add support for new platforms to druntime, and maintain platform-specific differences in existing ones. It better reveals the actual dependencies of each module by avoiding implicit public imports.
Progress
This is done for linux and most posix platforms.
Most imports for darwin, solaris and windows are still TODO.
Future work
I'd also like to attempt this with
core.stdc
. That would (in combination with this pr) open up the possibility for developers working with aFreestanding
platform to get parts of druntime to work without needing an entire supported libc, just specific functions.Also, contrary to what druntime assumes, not every platform has concepts like a filesystem, stdio, processes... This could help in determining what modules have those features as hard dependencies, and what modules could also work without them on such platforms.