Hi, On Sat, Jan 24, 2015, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On 24/01/15 12:41, Vincent Torri wrote: > > cedric pushed a commit to branch master. > > > > http://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/commit/?id=546d87c8b5de547a6ecbe579a08910981deac8a0 > > > > commit 546d87c8b5de547a6ecbe579a08910981deac8a0 > > Author: Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@univ-evry.fr> > > Date: Fri Jan 23 17:18:23 2015 +0100 > > > > autotools: remove some Windows CE bits. > > > > We actually do not support Windows CE and don't plan to. Let's remove > > that > > from our configure. > > Would have been good if the commit message also mentioned that it > switched the default for windows version from XP to Win7. Not sure how > much this really changes but seeing this inside was unexpected. >
Basically it's like switching from targeting libc5 to targeting glibc 2: the executables won't be able to run on XP because it lacks some newer APIs (it's a bit more complicated than that but considering how computer-literate Windows are it's probably very close). So, less compatibility. Bad! Except that it means more code is needed inside evil and it's code that doesn't get many reviews. Also, XP has been EOL'ed for real by MS for almost a year and no dev around the EFLs cares about it (or at least to the point of spending time to maintain compatibility). By the way, on win-builds.org's apache logs, I don't see browsers from XP anymore in the top ones while I was seeing some less than a year ago though. I've also seen people ask for XP compatibility in win-builds 1.5 as recently as last week so there's a demand (that one was for Xonotic). </historical_data> (still, that part should have gone in a separate commit) -- Adrien Nader http://win-builds.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
