Updates to the WindowsAPI translation instructions; D2 only?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 8/1/2013 10:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Regardless, the biggest gain by far will be being able to ditch support 
>> for XP
>> and require at least Vista. As bad as Vista was, it had some major
>> improvements to the Win32 API (like adding a proper condition variable).
>
> As a practical matter, we do not test on XP, and so it is disingenuous to 
> claim official support for it.
>
> I suggest saying we "officially" support Win7 or later, and unofficially 
> support versions back to XP. Unofficially means there's code there to 
> support it, and we accept pull requests to fix bugs in it, we will try not 
> to break it, but we don't test or guarantee that it'll work.
>
> It's like how we "support" Solaris and a VC-built dmd.

It would be rather silly to stop officially supporting the second most 
popular desktop operating system.