Why did etc.c.odbc move to core.sys.windows?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Sat Jun 5 07:22:26 UTC 2021


On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 17:02:08 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
>
> I see `etc.c.*` headers pretty useless in the standard library. 
> The phylosophy of most of the standard libraries are: provide 
> what "every programmer" might reasonably require when building 
> a large collection of software and provide relatively 
> easy-to-code facilities.
>
> Moving this to the runtime library is totally not a solution to 
> this problem, in my point of view. By definition, a runtime 
> library shouldn't have bindings to a random library that a few 
> people uses.
>

It wasn't moved to the runtime library, it needlessly existed in 
both places.  One of them had to go.


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