Updates to the WindowsAPI translation instructions; D2 only?

[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 23:00:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/1/2013 3:28 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> What do people think we should do?  Opinions please!
>
> Even supporting XP is problematic because of the badly broken 
> thread local storage support for DLLs in it, which D heavily 
> relies on. I wouldn't say this for a C++ compiler, but for D, I 
> kinda feel that Windows 7 should be the minimum.
>
> We can certainly ditch all the Windows 9x support.

+1

If Windows 7 is going to be the baseline, it would be nice to 
have some updated Win32 libs ship with DMD. They seem to be 
rather old and are missing functions that have been added to the 
API in recent years.