phobos/tango on win32: please drop ANSI "support"
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)
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Thu Feb 15 09:10:54 PST 2007
Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> unicode layer for Windows is not part of Win9x, it's a separate
>> add-on. This means that in order to use a D executable, the user would
>> have to find and install MSLU. This is unacceptable - I don't want to
>> deal with the constant "bug reports" about this.
>
> Supporting 9x in general is a huge pain. There are a lot of important
> library features that it doesn't provide.
Couldn't that be just dropped? MS itself dropped support for them six
months ago:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean18
Andrei
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