Visual D support for VS 2008 and 32-bit Windows

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 25 September 2017 at 20:29:19 UTC, AB wrote:

>
> Back to Visual D, do you intend to fix these compatibility 
> issues in future releases? Or will you drop support for legacy 
> OS/IDE?

DMD no longer supports Windows XP. Walter recently said [1]:

"the D community doesn't have the resources to support systems 
that have been abandoned by their vendors. This is why D 
officially doesn't support Windows XP anymore."

I thought Vista was the minimum version, but the DMD Windows page 
says "Windows 7 or later" [2].

I can't find a minimum Windows version for LDC, but the 
instructions for building it say Visual Studio 2015 is required 
[2], which in turn lists Windows 7 SP 1 as the minimum required 
Windows version for installation [4] (though it can target XP).

Does it make sense, then, to maintain support for XP in Visual D? 
Given that it's a one-man project, I would expect the answer to 
be "no". But I'm not Rainer :-)

[1]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/oic1ms$1k2e$1@digitalmars.com
[2]: https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html
[3]: https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC
[4]: 
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/productinfo/vs2015-sysrequirements-vs