On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Dmitry Gorbachev d.g.gorbachev@gmail.com wrote:
I believe that people wish "perfect world" API as an optional feature, not that they really want to broke compatibility.
We discussed something like this years ago. It would be nice if every sort of legacy API that has any sort of hacks for brokeness as part of its implementation, could be isolated and a simple recompile with something like a #define NO_LEGACY_WIN32 so you could recompile without the hacks. Not really that useful for the real world as you need the backward compatibility but it is a nice idea for embedded or non-normal windows targets like ARM.