On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ted Mielczarek <t...@mielczarek.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 04:14 PM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote: > > The good news is that dxr does not find anything using IsXPSP3OrLater(). > > But this looks like we have a bit of version specific code in our tree: > > > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=XP_WIN&redirect=false&case=true > > FYI, the "XP" here means "cross-platform", and XP_WIN is set whenever > we're building for Windows. > > > > And on top of that come the costs for maintaining XP machines as part of > > the treeherder setup. > > > > So it is not easy to quantify, but there is a “XP tax” we pay. > > This is true. We hit this with toolchain support, we're actively jumping > through hoops to continue targeting XP with newer versions of MSVC. We jump through some hoops to support things like Linux and Mac too, and those platforms combined have far fewer users than XP. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
