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 <[email protected]> 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). > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
