Update to focused 0.100 windows crates to follow Microsoft guidance
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- Rust
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Description
Replace windows-sys with focused Windows 0.100.0 bindings. This is done to follow Microsft Upstream guidance here:
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
Prefer the focused crates below when they cover the functionality you need. For additional APIs, windows-bindgen can generate a minimal project-specific binding, while windows and windows-sys provide broad API coverage behind feature flags for binary applications.
Reusable libraries should avoid the windows and windows-sys umbrella crates. They add dependency weight and version churn, and several libraries can bring incompatible versions of the same large crate into one dependency tree. Prefer the focused crates for shared Windows types and generate any remaining private bindings with windows-bindgen.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the windows-sys dependency and its uses in the stacker repository, then read the linked Microsoft windows-rs guidance on focused Windows 0.100.0 crates. The work is done when the needed bindings use focused crates instead of windows-sys and the project still builds successfully.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100