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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Here's the last month of Windows visitors for blender.org:
http://www.blender.org/bf/Browser_OS_Analytics.pdf

One million visits, 70% win7, 14% XP still.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



On 19 May, 2013, at 3:07, bjornmose wrote:

> 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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