Why did etc.c.odbc move to core.sys.windows?

[Paul Backus]

On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 01:22:19 UTC, singingbush wrote:
> The phobos documentation states that the odbc modules:
>
> etc.c.odbc.sql
> etc.c.odbc.sqlext
> etc.c.odbc.sqltypes
> etc.c.odbc.sqlucode
>
> will be removed in Feb 2022 and I should instead use 
> `core.sys.windows` but ODBC isn't a Windows only thing so this 
> seems a bit odd.

I'm guessing it's because Windows is the only OS that ships these 
header files as part of the base installation. On Linux, they're 
provided by a third-party package (e.g. on Debian it's `libodbc`).