[Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hi Bastien,
Good to hear that I am not totally alone with my point of view ;-)
Ton sent in some interesting statistics of the blender.org website visitors:

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040268.html
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040269.html
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040274.html

And I started a poll in blenderartists :
http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?291199-32-or-64bit

The results speak for themselves ...
/Jürgen

Am 17.06.2013 um 09:43 schrieb Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>:

> 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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