The future of the WindowsAPI bindings project

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 13-05-2012 17:35, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 13/05/2012 16:13, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> <snip excessive quote>
>>> On this basis, what should we do? Indeed, what exactly is D2's official
>>> minimum supported version of Windows? Me, NT4 or 2000?
>>
>> 2000, AFAIK. There is currently a pull request to repair Windows 2000
>> support in druntime.
>
> That would be my inkling. But has it actually been stated somewhere, or
> are you just assuming?

Just assuming. Since Windows 9x support was dropped, but not 2000 
support (it was broken accidentally), I assume we still support it.

>
>>> Advantages of keeping the Win9x versioning in the bindings:
>>> - Enables those D1 programmers that remain to write stuff that runs
>>> under Win9x.
>>> - Saves the effort of going through removing it
>>
>> I think we should just get rid of it. For D2, we'll have to remove the
>> 9x stuff at some
>> point anyway. And keeping the 9x stuff around for D1 is not worth it,
>> since D1 is being
>> discontinued kind-of soon. Besides, does anyone actually write Windows
>> 9x programs in D
>> anymore?
>
> Probably nobody of significance writes programs to target Win9x now. But
> some people are hesitant to move on from supporting a given OS version.
> If Mozilla and OpenOffice are still claiming to support Win2000, there
> are probably people out there still claiming to support Win9x.
>
> But any people who are programming D for Win9x will already have the
> bindings. And if they do an SVN update and find that the protection
> against accidentally using Win2000+ APIs on which they relied has gone,
> they can update back to the old version. So maybe you're right. Still,
> let's see what the others say.
>
> <snip>
>> If someone really wants to, they can put the Windows 9x stuff into the
>> D1 branch of
>> druntime. But let's not put it into master.
>
> There's no "D1 branch of druntime". Under D1, there's just Phobos.

Oops, true. That's what I meant. :)

>
> Stewart.

-- 
- Alex