On 23/01/2012 00:23, Jonathan M Davis wrote: <snip>
Except that druntime and Phobos use those APIs. So, it matters. And since the number of people using pre-Win2K is extremely low, I see that as a complete non-issue.
In the cases where this is unavoidable, it can be dealt with by documenting which bits of druntime and Phobos require WinXP+ so that programmers wishing to support Win2k or below can avoid using them.
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The next version of Windows beyond that that it would be useful to be able to say that we don't support anything older than is Vista. I would _love_ to be able to do that Vista is the oldest that we support, because Vista added a bunch of useful API calls and the like. But we obviously can't do that anytime soon. The user base for XP is huge. The same can't be said of pre-Win2K.
<snip> Indeed, I'm inclined to think WinXP is still the most used OS now. Stewart.
