[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> This is an XP patch.  The "vista" option is put in there as a compile
> time option, and disabled by hand.  I'm not adding any apis that
> weren't already in use since the new gil (windows Semaphores).

Martin means that you shouldn't use #ifdef's but runtime detection, so that we can provide a single installer for all Windows versions.

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