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

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Sun May 19 13:09:34 CEST 2013


Hi,

OK last stat for today:

All OS types of one month blender.org visiting:
http://www.blender.org/bf/OS_Analytics.pdf

Most likely the mobile OS visitor count would increase a lot when we make the new site working, it's going to be made with flexible drawing engine.

Interesting to see Chrome OS and Firefox OS popping up.

-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 12:28, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

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