phobos/tango on win32: please drop ANSI "support"

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Feb 15 09:10:54 PST 2007


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> unicode layer for Windows is not part of Win9x, it's a separate 
>> add-on. This means that in order to use a D executable, the user would 
>> have to find and install MSLU. This is unacceptable - I don't want to 
>> deal with the constant "bug reports" about this.
> 
> Supporting 9x in general is a huge pain.  There are a lot of important 
> library features that it doesn't provide.

Couldn't that be just dropped? MS itself dropped support for them six 
months ago:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean18


Andrei



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