HI Matijn, It's ok to drop xp for 2.8. It would be good to keep everyone on board for 2.7x but if it's really to much hassle, I think everyone can understand. Bliblubli on BA did a xp compatible build of latest master with OpenVDB. Maybe you can join forces?
Mat On 29/01/2016 09:50, Martijn Berger wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > I think that we should drop window XP after 2.77. And switch to msvc 2015 > for 2.78 and 2.8 also. > > We should clearly advertise windows 7 SP1. As most issue are with FMA / AVX > support and windwos 7 pre SP1 has some issues there. > > Martijn > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> There are some difficulties in maintaining Windows XP and additionally >> there are some glitches in the toolset needed to compile Windows XP >> compatible binaries. >> >> So proposal is: make 2.77 a last release which officially supports Windows >> XP and for the further releases switch to Windows 7+ platforms only. We'll >> still be doing 64bit and 32bit builds, but just wouldn't waste time trying >> to support new features on a platform which is no longer supported by >> others. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers