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

[Cezary Kopias]

how is mingw-w64 handing winxp or win8 ?

For win7 besides openmp works really well


2013/5/19 bjornmose <bjornmose at gmx.net>

> 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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