Walter Bright wrote:
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.
Wouldn't it have with static data? I know I introduced at least one
static variable in a Phobos function.
Andrei
