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

[singingbush]

On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 03:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 01:22:19 UTC, singingbush wrote:
>> The phobos documentation states that the odbc modules:
>>
>> etc.c.odbc.sql
>> etc.c.odbc.sqlext
>> etc.c.odbc.sqltypes
>> etc.c.odbc.sqlucode
>>
>> will be removed in Feb 2022 and I should instead use 
>> `core.sys.windows` but ODBC isn't a Windows only thing so this 
>> seems a bit odd.
>
> I'm guessing it's because Windows is the only OS that ships 
> these header files as part of the base installation. On Linux, 
> they're provided by a third-party package (e.g. on Debian it's 
> `libodbc`).

For me that doesn't indicate that it should be in 
`core.sys.windows`, it indicates that either:

A: The installers for other platforms need to ensure appropriate 
dependencies are installed
B: odbc has no business being in core D language and should just 
be something that needs building independently, probably as a dub 
package.