Windows 2000 support

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 19:34:38 Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> > If it was not for the damned Windows, there would be a single
> > universal operating system interface for all operating systems.
> 
> If POSIX standardization was ever successful. If all you need is covered
> by oldish Unix interface, if ... And there is ton of small details that
> try to stub you in the eye while porting from say Linux to OS X.

When writing std.datetime, I was shocked to find out that Mac OS X doesn't have 
the librt functions in spite of the fact that they're POSIX. My guess is that 
they're from some version of POSIX that Mac OS X doesn't support, but 
regardless, the fact that something is POSIX doesn't seem to actually 
guarantee much. It puts you in the general ballpark of your stuff working if 
it's using POSIX stuff, but you have to make it sure (and potentially tweak) 
everything that you do which relies on POSIX functionality for each OS to make 
sure that it functions correctly. All you have to do is go through druntime 
and see all of the differences between each of the POSIX systems to see how 
much they vary, in spite of the fact that they're all supposedly following the 
POSIX standard.

- Jonathan M Davis