[issue23606] ctypes.util.find_library("c") no longer makes sense

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Good question, I'm not sure. Right now, the api-* DLLs use forwarding rather than apisetschema, but that could change. Since they support back to XP though, I suspect it probably won't the api-* DLLs will stay as they are with ucrtbase exporting ordinals rather than names.

ucrtbased is probably going to stay as it is. When you install a debug runtime you're voluntarily giving up well-defined versioning. You'll only have that file installed if you have VS 2015 or later though - it won't be part of the updates for everyone.

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