Why did etc.c.odbc move to core.sys.windows?
Iain Buclaw
ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Sat Jun 5 07:22:26 UTC 2021
On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 17:02:08 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
>
> I see `etc.c.*` headers pretty useless in the standard library.
> The phylosophy of most of the standard libraries are: provide
> what "every programmer" might reasonably require when building
> a large collection of software and provide relatively
> easy-to-code facilities.
>
> Moving this to the runtime library is totally not a solution to
> this problem, in my point of view. By definition, a runtime
> library shouldn't have bindings to a random library that a few
> people uses.
>
It wasn't moved to the runtime library, it needlessly existed in
both places. One of them had to go.
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