Re: GetConsoleWindow

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:25:44AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Well, yes, but for w32api that would not be logical.  At least this
>thread has pointed some doco weaknesses that I need to address.  Yes,
>if you want to use the newer API functions then you must be aware to
>set WINVER to the version you wish to support.  MS must do this for
>each generation of new compilers to support newer OS's.  If give the
>developer the freedom to not think about backward compatibility, and as
>evidenced there is little.  We are smarter than that, so we choose to
>let the developer set the version h[im|er]self, I.E.: the developer is
>forced to think about the new functionality w.r.t.  backward
>compatibility of older OS versions.

Is this decision documented somewhere?  It doesn't make sense to me
that w32api would be like Microsoft in every other way but this one.
And, somehow, I thought that as one of the main users of w32api, we
might get a vote in this.

Why throw a barrier in the way of someone who thinks that they've
found an alternative to MSVC?  You're guaranteeing that someone will
have to find the mingw mailing list and ask questions because things
are working differently than they expect.

cgf