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