[Issue 12756] Cannot build dmd on windows because of longdouble

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12756

--- Comment #9 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to yebblies from comment #8)
> (In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #6)
> > DMD is supported on systems from Win7 onward (XP also works but Walter
> > decided it should become deprecated). VS2013 requires Win7 SP1 at a minimum.
> 
> Do you have a link to where Walter said this?

Here's a list of his interesting replies, sorted by date:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/ktep9p$1ggs$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ktfgps$2ghh$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ktgvtq$1jgo$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/kthf5v$286e$1@digitalmars.com

> We shouldn't force anyone to upgrade their toolchain without a very good
> reason either.

The way I see it, if it's not /too much/ trouble then there's absolutely no
reason to break tools.

Recently and somewhat related: someone reported to Epic that UE4 didn't work on
XP. They responded promptly that they're going to fix the issue ASAP. Business
is business!

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