Yet another effort at translating the Win32 API headers

[Kyle Furlong]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> This project is now officially based on the public domain MinGW headers. 
>  I've translated a few more of the files on this basis, and rewritten 
> the instructions to make more sense to a translation from C headers.
> 
> I've also set up a page on Wiki4D to coordinate the project:
> 
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
> 
> Now, who's going to contribute?
> 
> In line with comments from various people including Walter, my plan is 
> for the work to be public domain.  Is this OK with everyone?
> 
> 
> The main open issue I can think of at the moment is what to do with the 
> Windows version CC stuff.
> 
> We could get rid of the CC and just compile everything in, but this'll 
> make it easy to lose track of the minimum Windows version an application 
> supports.  We probably don't really need to distinguish between 
> Win95/NT4 and earlier Win32 (Win32s, whatever else) anymore, but it 
> might still be worth doing it with some or all Windows versions since then.
> 
> Defining a set of version identifiers for the supported Windows versions 
> along the Win9x and WinNT lines is another possibility, but it'll take a 
> bit of work to determine how the #ifs should be converted.
> 
> This has also brought out my wish for a version import facility once 
> again....
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/11981
> 
> Meanwhile, can we get away with supplying a set of command line files 
> for various Windows versions?
> 
> Stewart.
> 

Its probably legally better to offer it under one of the freest licenses (MIT, BSD, libpng, etc.)