[Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog

[Bastien Montagne]

Please don’t be stupid! Comparing XP and Linux on a market share basis 
is just pure nonsense. There’s at least two huge differences between 
those OS's:
*One is 12 years old, the other one is plain modern (don’t think anyone 
would care to maintain Blender for over 10 years old linux, nor even for 
OSX!).
*Even though a few XP are listed in 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Supported_platforms (and I’m 
not sure this list is really up-to-date), you’ll find far more Blender 
devs under linux.

And despite the fact that XP is still about 40% of PCs connecting to the 
web, you’ll have a hard time finding any commercial 3D software 
supporting it (most don’t even support Vista anymore). While a fare 
amount of them do support Linux.

It would interesting to know the amount of XP PCs that download Blender, 
btw. My guess is that it would be far less than 40%.

So in a word, if we drop OpenGL below 2.1 (or even 3.0), it makes sense 
to me to also drop XP. You can’t waist time (and even often limit your 
app possibilities) to support obsolete stuff forever!

On 17/06/2013 06:52, Alexandr Kuznetsov wrote:
> Drop linux. It has 1% market share, less than xp. No more x11 hacks. And
> Mac OS X Tiger. Oops, too late. Somebody already did it.
>
> On 6/17/2013 12:46 AM, Harley Acheson wrote:
>> Jürgen,
>>
>> If we are considering dropping Windows XP we should probably also
>> consider dropping the other operating systems that have even less usage.
>> Which is everything else besides Windows 7. So every version of
>> Mac and all flavors of Linux combined.  LOL
>>
>> Harley
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