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

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Sat Jun 5 21:14:21 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 17:39:34 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-06-05 at 07:22 +0000, Iain Buclaw via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 17:02:08 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
>> > [...]
>> 
>> It wasn't moved to the runtime library, it needlessly existed 
>> in both places.  One of them had to go.
>
> Ok, sure, thats worse but moving forward is not deleting one of 
> them, IMHO. AFAIK, libodbc is something external, even on 
> windows, so why druntime is still dependent on such bindings?

Because it is is part of the mingw runtime, and the contributor 
to `core.sys.windows` translated all headers verbatim.


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