Windows 2000 support

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:43:34 Denis Shelomovskij wrote:
> it's time to make a decision. Original comment:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/212#issuecomment-582
> 7106
> 
> So what we will do with Windows 2000? Personally I don't like this pull
> request (druntime pull 212). It makes not-very-good-looking druntime
> uglier. I'd like voting about this to be done. Something like:
> 
> 1. Officially announce that minimum supported Windows version is 5.1
> (aka XP) since v2.053
>    1. Add link like "Email @denis-sh to get D stuff with partial support
> for Windows 2000".
>    2. Just call all Windows 2000 users dinosaurs.
> 
> 2. [A bit improve and] Merge this pull and officially announce that
> Windows 2000 is partially supported.
> 
> 3. Maniacally add full Windows 2000 support.
> 
> 4. Leave Issue 6024 opened forever.
> 
> 
> 
> And from my next comment
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/212#issuecomment-582
> 7146: Oh, it's few days more than a year Windows 2000 is silently
> unsupported!
> 
> Links:
> * http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6024

Personally, I like the tact of saying that we'll support whatever versions of 
Windows that Microsoft does (which would mean no support for Win2K), but if 
adding some Win2K-specific stuff to fix some Win2K specific issues doesn't cost us 
much, then it's fine with me. The problem is when there's a lot of it and/or 
it's disruptive. Some of the Win9x support definitely complicated stuff, and 
removing it was a definite step in the right direction IMHO. Win2K's situation 
is not quite the same however, so fixing some of the issues with it isn't 
necessarily a problem.

Honestly though, if it were purely up to me, I'd just go with the tact of 
saying that we'll support whatever versions of Windows that Microsoft 
supports, and anything that happens to work on older versions will work, and 
anything that doesn't, oh well.

- Jonathan M Davis