[Bf-committers] Windows XP support

[matmenu]

HI Matijn,

It's ok to drop xp for 2.8. It would be good to keep everyone on board 
for 2.7x but if it's really to much hassle, I think everyone can 
understand. Bliblubli on BA did a xp compatible build of latest master 
with OpenVDB. Maybe you can join forces?

Mat

On 29/01/2016 09:50, Martijn Berger wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> I think that we should drop window XP after 2.77. And switch to msvc 2015
> for 2.78 and 2.8 also.
>
> We should clearly advertise windows 7 SP1. As most issue are with FMA / AVX
> support and windwos 7 pre SP1 has some issues there.
>
> Martijn
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> There are some difficulties in maintaining Windows XP and additionally
>> there are some glitches in the toolset needed to compile Windows XP
>> compatible binaries.
>>
>> So proposal is: make 2.77 a last release which officially supports Windows
>> XP and for the further releases switch to Windows 7+ platforms only. We'll
>> still be doing 64bit and 32bit builds, but just wouldn't waste time trying
>> to support new features on a platform which is no longer supported by
>> others.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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