Windows 2000 support

[Tim Krimm]

On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 04:42:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

>
> Honestly though, if it were purely up to me, I'd just go with 
> the tact of
> saying that we'll support whatever versions of Windows that 
> Microsoft
> supports, and anything that happens to work on older versions 
> will work, and
> anything that doesn't, oh well.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I understand that it is a lot of work for Phobos and for the run 
time.
So we should put an XP+ requirement on the libraries, agreed.

I also know writing your own "stub libraries" is a lot of work, 
but that is OK.

1) I just asking that we try to keep the XP+ requirement out of 
DMD,
not the libraries.

2) I am also asking this only if it is not a lot of work.
When it becomes difficult than stop doing the win2k support.

Is it already difficult to keep the XP+ requirement out of the 
DMD compiler?
Is it a few lines of code or is it a big fix?
I think 2.053 was the last version that supported win2k.