On 21 April 2016 at 06:38, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Well so far the only needs I have run into for the win32 flag has
> been in relation to choosing UI toolkit support for cairo and gtk+
> (and possibly others in the future), which is why I saw the parallel.


Given you're not using the flag to indicate "works on win32" as such,
but instead "compile using Win32 Widgets instead of something else",
wouldn't a better name indicate that somehow?

The simplest thing I can think of that clears this confusion is a few
extra characters:

  "win32gui", "win32ui"

Or something along those lines.

It doesn't require us to know what the exact binding keywords in
microsoft terminology is used, and it clearly communicates "This is
something to do with User Interfaces" as opposed to "Just
linking/compiling slightly differently".

-- 
Kent

KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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