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People are reluctant to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, because the new version invades one's privacy. Microsoft thinks that your computer belongs to them, not to you, but --sorry-- enough politics.<br>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 27/05/2019 11:46:44, Peter McKinna <peter.mckinna@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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<div>Hasn't the world upgraded to Windows 10?</div>
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<div>Simply as much as possible but no simpler, (to paraphrase Einstein)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 6:11 PM Jay K <<a href="mailto:jayk123@hotmail.com">jayk123@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span>Does anyone mind if:</span></div>
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<span> - reduce/remove support for Windows prior to Vista? (including Win95/Win98/NT4/Win2000/XP).</span></div>
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i.e. use __declspec(thread) (and continue to ignore fibers)</div>
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i.e. maybe use SRWLOCK and Win32 condition variable.</div>
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- reduce/remove support for Visual C++ prior to 2015?</div>
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i.e. assume what we link to wrt msvcrt.lib/libmt.lib</div>
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i.e. remove the mt.exe support?</div>
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Config file stuff.</div>
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- remove support for linking to static C runtime?</div>
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Config file stuff.</div>
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I'm torn on all of them.</div>
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The old systems weren't that bad to program against, and aren't that difficult, in some sense to support..well, easy code to write,</div>
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not at all easy to test, an ever expanding matrix, unless someone does a good job of automating it, or is commited</div>
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to active manual development/test with old.</div>
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On the other hand, NT 3.1, Win95, and Win32s shouldn't be all that difficult to support.</div>
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How portable should a portable runtime be?</div>
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By and large, industry does not support prior to Windows 7.</div>
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- Related question then as to what to support bootstrapping from.</div>
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3.6? 4.0? etc.</div>
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- Jay</div>
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