Migrate from winapi to widows-sys

[kchibisov]

It seems like there's a movement of migrating from winapi to windows-sys, since the latter is directly maintained by microsoft. Upstream winit for example already moved to windows-sys.

[chrisduerr]

It seems like there's a movement of migrating from winapi to windows-sys, since the latter is directly maintained by microsoft.

While Microsoft maintaining their own API makes some sense, I'm not sure that alone is an argument for switching? Do you know if there has been a statement by winapi encouraging people to switch? The project doesn't seem to be super active anymore though maybe it's just "done"?

Generally winapi still seems to have about 5 times the number of recent downloads on crates.io, so it still seems to be a good chunk more popular.

[kchibisov]

@chrisduerr the problem is that we have both at the same time and winit moved to windows-sys recently.

In general we won't have 2 dependencies linking to the same system libraries.

[chrisduerr]

@chrisduerr the problem is that we have both at the same time and winit moved to windows-sys recently.

I mean why did they move? Did they have a reason or did they just do it to annoy downstream?

[kchibisov]

I think the motivation is rust-windowing/winit#2057 ? Though, it was more about windows-rs, and not sys.

Though, winapi seems like indeed unmaintained.

[chrisduerr]

Windows is such a shitshow, I guess I don't really care either way as long as we're not switching dependencies every couple months.