On Mon, 4 Sept 2023 at 19:50, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Monday, 4 September 2023 08:38:43 PDT coshvji cujmlqef via
> Std-Proposals
> wrote:
> > I can guarantee Qt is nowhere as portable and internationalized as
> fast_io.
> > It even works on windows 95 and DOS to support those feature. (I am
> current
> > working on support locale system on DOS)
>
> Qt supported Windows 95, until we dropped it in version 4.4 (I think,
> maybe
> 4.5). The reason was the lack of W APIs causing us to have to maintain a
> double set of everything, thus adding to the cost of maintenance of the
> codebase, for too little gain.
>
> The issues were never the low-level API like files and streams. Those
> problems
> had usually been solved for a decade (though there were certainly bugs,
> like
> trying to deal with CRLF in a transparent manner). No, the problems were
> the
> higher-level things, like dealing with graphical objects, text formatting,
> hardware access, hardware-acceleration, etc.
>
> I commend you for even trying Win95 and DOS, but what for? What real-world
> purpose does it serve to talk about those?
>
>
He doesn't just talk about them, he reports bugs when GCC and GDB don't
support all C++11 features on Win95 *because it's really important* for
some reason.