On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 09:28:46 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 23:00:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/1/2013 3:28 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
What do people think we should do? Opinions please!
Even supporting XP is problematic because of the badly broken
thread local storage support for DLLs in it, which D heavily
relies on. I wouldn't say this for a C++ compiler, but for D,
I kinda feel that Windows 7 should be the minimum.
We can certainly ditch all the Windows 9x support.
Windows XP user-base is still very big. I would vote against
ditching the XP support. The main reason ReactOS
(http://www.reactos.org) is becoming so popular is precisely
because XP users consider it as alternative once the XP support
from Microsoft is gone. ReactOS is slowly reaching the stable
state, it even "works" on my HP Z200 workstation at work! :)
I have a Windows XP netbook that I still use on a daily basis!
:) All I am trying to say is - XP is not dead, yet...
Here is a link for you to backup my claim -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems .
If you go to http://www.netmarketshare.com/ and pick the
Operating Systems -> Desktop Share by Version option, you will
see the most recent data. Windows XP holds 37.2% of the desktop
share - IMHO it is not something to ignore.
