[Issue 12756] Cannot build dmd on windows because of longdouble

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12756

yebblies <yebblies at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from yebblies <yebblies at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #6)
> DMD is supported on systems from Win7 onward (XP also works but Walter
> decided it should become deprecated). VS2013 requires Win7 SP1 at a minimum.

Do you have a link to where Walter said this?

(In reply to Temtaime from comment #7)
> It must be deprecated. Windows XP is the past. Its lifetime already ended.

Excluding Windows 7, XP still has a bigger desktop market share than all other
operating systems combined, according to some sources.  Age is not a good
reason D shouldn't support the second most common operating system.

We shouldn't force anyone to upgrade their toolchain without a very good reason
either.

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