On 7/6/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the key reason is that this is non-standard stuff from microsoft's for-fee toolchain, and people in OSS try to avoid having a dependency on that. I wouldn't mind supporting this at some point a) once it becomes a standard and b) has broad acceptance, but I'm guessing that's going to take years. People who have used the free version of MSFT tools seem to just set the flag as you note.
Honestly that seems like the best approach to me. Otherwise, you'll get tons of warnings from code that's intended to be portable across C compilers, which can't possibly be expected to switch to the microsoft-only APIs. Switching to the microsoft-only APIs inside of specialized parts of the tree that are only used on windows is one thing, but even then I'd advise against it since it ties you too closely to their toolchain. -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
