Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:48 -0500, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:18:57 -0500, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Microsoft doesn't break support for older Windows when it comes out
with newer ones. Supporting the full range of Windows is essentially
trivial.
For the compiler, yes. For library code, not so much. If you want
to use newer features of the MS libraries, you must abandon support
older Windows.
True, but that's an app issue, not a dev tools issue.
If Phobos depends on functionality not supported in Windows 98, then dmd
is pretty useless on win98 unless you provide a compatible standard
library. Most normal users consider the standard library to be an
essential part of the compiler.
Phobos doesn't currently have any compatibility problems with Win95. If
a new feature of Phobos did have such an issue, I would expect to
document it for that feature.
I was just
arguing your point about how Windows always provides backwards
compatibility.
Backward compatibility doesn't mean that the old systems have to support
new features. It just means that the old features continue to work on
the new systems. I have a lot of software built for Win95 that still
works fine <g>. Even the DOS programs still work.
