> 在 2017年12月14日,下午10:12,Hendrik Leppkes <h.lepp...@gmail.com> 写道: > >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:26 PM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I propose that FFmpeg sets the minimum supported Windows version to >> Windows Vista (or maybe Windows 7). This would remove Windows XP >> support. >> >> The reason is that Windows XP does not provide certain convenient APIs, >> in particular locking primitives that map well to pthread. There are >> other problems, such as upstream projects dropping XP support, and >> developers not being able to test. >> >> Dropping it has advantages for us. For example, it would allow is to >> rewrite the messy locking code for AVCodec registration, which has been >> a topic recently. >> >> Microsoft ended all support for Windows XP on January 31, 2009. That's >> almost a decade ago. There is a lack of security updates, which makes >> merely using Windows XP dangerous. There is no reason to put so much >> effort into supporting an old, unsupported OS. >> > > End of Extended Support was April 8, 2014, but still already 3.5 years ago. > >> We should drop XP support, and allow unconditional use of Windows Vista >> APIs. >> >> I'm also casting an internal vote to probe for support (this vote is >> meant for members of the FFmpeg voting committee only). >> >> The subject of the vote is: >> >> Should we drop support for Windows XP starting in git master and the >> next FFmpeg major release? >> >> Current release branches are explicitly unaffected. >> >> My own vote on this issue is "yes" (assuming I still have a right for a >> vote, I really don't know). > > > Yes, absolutely. Yes too > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
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