From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2012-01-06 13:20:32
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Charles Wilson < cwi...@us...> wrote: > On 1/5/2012 9:18 AM, Keith Marshall wrote: > > Now, maybe we don't care about the potential fall out from that, but if > > we are to make this change, I think we must also post a very prominent > > statement regarding its potential consequences to users -- and by very > > prominent, I don't mean buried at some obscure location within some > > arbitrarily chosen header file, as we have at present. > > Isn't that what the sourceforge "NEWS" is for? We could also add it to > the MinGW README.rtf... > > Chuck, believing that people read. ;) A FAQ or HOWTO "Support Different Windows OS Versions" would be good as well as NEWS , README and list notification. But why not add a #warning if WINVER isn't defined by the user? Yes, it causes -Werror to abort compilation but it also forces the developer of the code to think. -DWINVER=0x0501 would resolve the abort as well as a #define in the config.h or some other header. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |