Hi all,

It seems to get become complicated to make a non-SSE build for blender, 
especially because OpenEXR now defaults for it. (We are receiving bug reports 
about it). Several newer components in Blender benefit from having SSE2 (like 
Cycles).

BTW: SSE2 was introduced in 2003 by Intel (Pentium 4 ) and in 2004 by AMD 
(Athlon 64). Every system you bought in past 6-7 years should support this.

Proposal is to drop official support for systems older than Pentium4 now. Even 
when it might still be possible to get it compiled or running - I'm talking 
about *official* support - in releases and for reports in our tracker.

Is that acceptable? Next sunday meeting we can formalize this as a decision.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   [email protected]    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

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