phobos/tango on win32: please drop ANSI "support"

[Lionello Lunesu]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
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> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> The basic stuff, like file I/O, does work, and must work.
>
> Well sure, but their socket library and threading support are somewhat 
> weak.  I'll admit that my opinion is skewed towards my own particular 
> areas of interest.

You make a great point: isn't Phobos using winsock2? This is also an add-on 
for the older windows systems.

L