+1 to drop it On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Fan Chun-wei <fanc...@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi, > > Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! > > I understand that this has been brought up before, but I think probably > it's time to gather views on whether we should start to drop XP support, as: > > -There are some things that required specialized implementations for XP, > for example, SRWLock in GLib and networking items in GIO, which may or may > not work well. > (for example, by using inet_pton() directly in ginetaddress.c for Windows > Vista and later enabled many of the network-address.c tests to pass) > -We often needed to do GetProcAddress() to check the availability of > system-level funtionalities, which would probably need a clean-up. > -As people may know, Microsoft ended support for XP this past April, and > it is found that maintaining support for XP is becoming a bigger and bigger > maintenance burden. > -There is likely the need to move forward to use newer system APIs and > features, which were only available after XP (such as desktop/window > composition) > -Other reasons that people might bring up for this. > > I understand that it might be late in this dev cycle to drop XP support, > but I do hope to do it (or at least take part in it) in the next cycle, so > I am writing here to see how people think about this before going into this. > > Any insight into this part would be really appreciated. > > With blessings, thank you! > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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