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What winapi needs to have better version/feature selection
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There are 5 winapi families:

  1. WINAPI_FAMILY_PC_APP
  2. WINAPI_FAMILY_PHONE_APP
  3. WINAPI_FAMILY_SYSTEM
  4. WINAPI_FAMILY_SERVER
  5. WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP
  • A crate that depends on winapi should specify the set of winapi families that it supports.
  • A single winapi family is chosen for an entire project, and the user has control over which family this is.
  • winapi is compiled for this family and informs all downstream crates which family it was compiled for so they can configure their code correctly.
  • If a crate doesn't specify that it supports the current winapi family, compilation should fail early with a nice error message indicating that the crate doesn't support the current winapi family. Otherwise the user would be confronted with confusing error messages about unresolved symbols.
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