Hi Ton, Sounds reasonable. I'll have XP support back in by the end of next week. Luckily it just a small change I'll have to do in my build environment.
/Jürgen Am 19.05.2013 um 12:49 schrieb Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > The conclusions I would make is to keep XP supported for at least a year. > MS drops it April 2014, let's review it then again. > > Note that for OSX we already dropped 10.5, which is still about 3% of the > visitors. > > When it comes to very old hardware or graphics card we do have to accept > limits too though... but for projects this year I don't see a huge problem > really. > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - 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 - [email protected] - 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 - [email protected] - 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 <[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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
