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

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Thu Feb 15 09:22:06 PST 2007


Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The basic stuff, like file I/O, does work, and must work.

Well sure, but their socket library and threading support are somewhat 
weak.  I'll admit that my opinion is skewed towards my own particular 
areas of interest.


Sean



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