Re: [AD] Proposing patch in windows detection

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-11-27, aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter Wang wrote:
> >
> >What is the point of detecting the Windows versions?
> 
> For programming purposes, it tells you which win32::functions are supported.
> 
> If we didn't check which version is running, and make code that runs on 
> all systems, we would still be targeting win95.
> 
> It also allows you to better guess the minimum platform for such things 
> as DirectX version... which is another nightmare to obtain.

Note that Allegro never makes use of the os_type variable in the Windows
port, so this argument is not very good.  If you're writing Windows-
specific code that actually requires detecting the OS version, you'd be
better off (1) doing it yourself, (2) detecting whether the OS has the
functionality you're after rather than using the OS version as a guide.

Peter