Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 22-01-2012 21:57, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:jfhppl$121g$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> I see absolutely no reason to support an OS that Microsoft does not
>> support anymore,
>
> I don't think that's a good reason, since XP is still extremely relevent
> despite MS having pulled support. However...

Well, extended support for XP still lasts until 2014.

>
>> especially when it has such a negligible amount of users...
>>
>
> There's the good reason, along with the fact that 9x are really just such
> bad OSes anyway and would be a royal PITA to support. *This* is why I don't
> think we should bother to support 9x.
>
>

Yes... the OS APIs from those times were nightmare-ish. And the code in 
druntime/phobos to support those OSes ain't exactly pretty...

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- Alex