[Bf-committers] Windows XP and the future of Blender

[bjornmose]

Well our statistics on world wide professionals ( using scientific 
measuring software )  says:

10% win7, 50% win XP, very few vista  the remains  even older :)
and we do full support down to W2k. ( to Daniel  .. including Europe , 
USA  and former UDSSR )
How stupid is that to keep customers satisfied?

Dropping  Win8 support is no option, though  i hope it will be like 
ignoring 'vista' for good.
Says the next Win8 (X point anything internally ) will be as nice as Win 
7 was .. plus providing some nice new features.
Please no OS  religions here, but fencing out XP users is suicide.

Am 17.05.2013 21:38, schrieb Damir Prebeg:
> My advance apologies for this... After a few days of painful experience I
> would strongly recommend dropping of Win8 support.
>
>
> On 17 May 2013 17:26, Daniel Genrich <daniel.genrich at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> +1 for that.
>>
>> Dropping Win XP would be too soon since many people from south america
>> and africa are still using Win XP.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> Am 17.05.2013 15:25, schrieb Thomas Dinges:
>>> Hi,
>>> if we do that, we could only build 2 builds.
>>>
>>> 32 bit: Compile with vc2008 for Windows XP and above
>>> 64 bit: Compile with vc2012 for Vista x64 and above
>>>
>>> We don't need x64 build for Windows XP, XP x64 is maybe used by 0.1%.
>>>
>>> This way all OS / bit configs would be served, and we don't have big
>>> overhead.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> Am 17.05.2013 15:14, schrieb Sergey Sharybin:
>>>> Also, we could do some "gradual" drop: meaning if vc2012's builds would
>> not
>>>> be able to run on XP, we could compile two versions of blender -- one
>> with
>>>> msvc2008 and other one with msvc2012. We did quite the same thing with
>>>> linux builds as well (building it against different libc version using
>>>> older and newer gcc versions).
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