[Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hi Alexandr,

I am actually not fooling on this. One example for API not present in XP is : InterlockedCompareExchange64 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683562(v=vs.85).aspx)
But that is actually not the problem! MS drops XP support next year, so XP users will get rare. Why should we support XP in blender 2.7/2.8?
32/64 bit portability is just more work to do. You loose speed in some places but you might be right. Just for portability this might be good. But on the other hand who uses 32bit applications in 3D?
It makes absolutely no sense to stay in 32bits when you can have more Memory in a 3D application ;)

/Jürgen



Am 17.06.2013 um 04:18 schrieb Alexandr Kuznetsov <kuzsasha at gmail.com>:

> Hi Jürgen Herrmann.
> 
> 
> Stop stealing my april fools prank.  Afaik, there aren't any significant 
> Windows API  additions in vista/7/8 which we might use (Like raw input)
> Plus, if a program has pointers right, x32/x64 compatibility isn't that 
> hard. Plus, we already have DNA conversion, including endiness.  On the 
> countrary, I would encourage to support x32 ( and even PPC architecture) 
> to ensure portability.
> 
> Best,
> Alex
> 
> On 6/16/2013 9:53 AM, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:
>> Hi Ton,
>> 
>> sounds great at a first glance ;) I really like the 2.7 targets.
>> 
>> Imho we should also think about dropping WinXP support and 32bit code in the
>> future. (Maybe for 2.8?)
>> This would make life easier for devs as we don't have to care about legacy
>> compatibility stuff and can focus on writing neat and fast 64bit code.
>> And a major code cleanup might be overdue.
>> 
>> /Jürgen
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: bf-committers-bounces at blender.org
>> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at blender.org] Im Auftrag von Ton Roosendaal
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013 15:45
>> An: bf-blender developers
>> Betreff: [Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Here's a write-up for projects and focus the next years:
>> http://code.blender.org/
>> 
>> Feedback welcome :)
>> 
>> -Ton-
>> 
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