Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3D789B61.5EFD4564@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:11:13 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com, mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Smith CC: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com, mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net Subject: Re: Re [2] [Mingw-users] Re: WINVER constant value [WAS: GetConsoleWindow] References: <20020906044052 DOT 29717 DOT qmail AT web14502 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Danny Smith wrote: > > --- Earnie Boyd wrote: > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:> > > > > What do MinGW users think? How does this affect WINE and ReactOS? > > > > The discussion here is that WINVER is defaulted to 0x0400 and all newer > > API is guarded with the appropriate version of Win32 OS in which they > > appeared in the w32api, yet with MS they change the value of WINVER to > > the new OS value with the new releases of their compilers. The > > beginning of the thread exists in the cygwin-developers list. > > > > My opinion is stated it the first paragraph above. > > > > Earnie. > > > > The MS default (set to latest and greatest) seems to encourage the development > of apps that require the latest and greatest version of the OS. After all, > that is their business. > > Setting the default to a minimal value of 0x0400 represents the opposite > stance. > > Personally, I prefer the current settings of the w32api. > Nicely phrased, Danny, I appreciate and support these comments. Earnie.