[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - December 15, 2013

[Damir Prebeg]

I don't use any MS viruses called Windoze but I wonder is it wise to drop
support for virus called XP that is still having about 30% market coverage?
A lot of miss leaded folks are still hooked on that OS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems


On 15 December 2013 16:35, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders
>
> 1) Planning and targets for next 2.70 release
>
> - We move to BCon2 in our schedule, bigger projects that will go in for
> 2.70 are known now.
>
> - Target and planning list has been updated:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
>
> - Multithreaded Dependency Graph is reviewed and should be ready for merge
> soon.
>
> - Merge of Game Engine LoD project is still unclear, needs to be reviewed
> (nexyon?)
>
>
> 2) Current projects
>
> - Campbell Barton wants to finish the Toolbar Tab patch this week.
> http://developer.blender.org/D75
>
> - Martijn Berger mentions progress on msvc 2012/2013 libs. He works on
> documentation and .bat scripts, to compile each library.
>
> Current plan:
> We will compile Blender 2.70 with MSVC 2008 still, and do the switch to
> MSVC 2012/2013 for Blender 2.71.
>
> Warning: When we do the switch, Windows XP support most likely will be
> discontinued. As Blender 2.71 won't be released before May/June 2014,
> plenty of time to do an OS update.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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