On 13/05/2012 16:13, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
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On this basis, what should we do? Indeed, what exactly is D2's official
minimum supported version of Windows? Me, NT4 or 2000?
2000, AFAIK. There is currently a pull request to repair Windows 2000 support
in druntime.
That would be my inkling. But has it actually been stated somewhere, or are you just
assuming?
Advantages of keeping the Win9x versioning in the bindings:
- Enables those D1 programmers that remain to write stuff that runs
under Win9x.
- Saves the effort of going through removing it
I think we should just get rid of it. For D2, we'll have to remove the 9x stuff
at some
point anyway. And keeping the 9x stuff around for D1 is not worth it, since D1
is being
discontinued kind-of soon. Besides, does anyone actually write Windows 9x
programs in D
anymore?
Probably nobody of significance writes programs to target Win9x now. But some people are
hesitant to move on from supporting a given OS version. If Mozilla and OpenOffice are
still claiming to support Win2000, there are probably people out there still claiming to
support Win9x.
But any people who are programming D for Win9x will already have the bindings. And if
they do an SVN update and find that the protection against accidentally using Win2000+
APIs on which they relied has gone, they can update back to the old version. So maybe
you're right. Still, let's see what the others say.
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If someone really wants to, they can put the Windows 9x stuff into the D1
branch of
druntime. But let's not put it into master.
There's no "D1 branch of druntime". Under D1, there's just Phobos.
Stewart.
