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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

OK here are the others too, fun to see:

http://www.blender.org/bf/Browser_Linux_Analytics.pdf
http://www.blender.org/bf/Browser_OSX_Analytics.pdf

Browser type:
http://www.blender.org/bf/Browser_Analytics.pdf

-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 12:22, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> 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-
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 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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