Microsoft itself drops support for it in April already. If someone steps up and will support XP, I am fine with this. But I am not going to waste time with it. Code wise and library wise it’s just a pain to support such a big variety of OS, and we also don’t support a 12 year old Mac OS or Linux.
Half a year of „warning“ time should be enough for everyone to switch. Thomas Am 16.12.2013 um 07:25 schrieb Damir Prebeg <[email protected]>: > I don't use any MS viruses called Windoze but I wonder is it wise to drop > support for virus called XP that is still having about 30% market coverage? > A lot of miss leaded folks are still hooked on that OS? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems > > > On 15 December 2013 16:35, Thomas Dinges <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Here the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders >> >> 1) Planning and targets for next 2.70 release >> >> - We move to BCon2 in our schedule, bigger projects that will go in for >> 2.70 are known now. >> >> - Target and planning list has been updated: >> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects >> >> - Multithreaded Dependency Graph is reviewed and should be ready for merge >> soon. >> >> - Merge of Game Engine LoD project is still unclear, needs to be reviewed >> (nexyon?) >> >> >> 2) Current projects >> >> - Campbell Barton wants to finish the Toolbar Tab patch this week. >> http://developer.blender.org/D75 >> >> - Martijn Berger mentions progress on msvc 2012/2013 libs. He works on >> documentation and .bat scripts, to compile each library. >> >> Current plan: >> We will compile Blender 2.70 with MSVC 2008 still, and do the switch to >> MSVC 2012/2013 for Blender 2.71. >> >> Warning: When we do the switch, Windows XP support most likely will be >> discontinued. As Blender 2.71 won't be released before May/June 2014, >> plenty of time to do an OS update. >> >> Thanks, >> Thomas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
