Ansi vs Unicode API

[Walter Bright]

Max Samukha wrote:
> You so readily abandon support for Mac OS X 10.5 but keep catering for
> the convenience of users of the outdated Windows 9x. Don't you see
> anything wrong with this approach?

Microsoft doesn't break support for older Windows when it comes out with 
newer ones. Supporting the full range of Windows is essentially trivial.

With Apple, if you take "hello world" in C, compile it with the default 
settings on 10.5, the generated executable will "bus error" on 10.4. 
This is with the dev tools Apple provides.

Not even linux is as good with compatibility as Microsoft is.

That said, there is nothing I have done with the 10.6 support that 
should break running on 10.5. I'm not going to gratuitously break it. I 
will support workarounds if they are provided. Nobody has reported here 
if it works on 10.5 or not. If you are running 10.5, please let us know!