well one of the reasons is that we are patching downstream in this ways (it can be fixed though) https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-glib2/0027-no_sys_if_nametoindex.patch
and afaik fan or lrn had some ideas to improve some parts of the code once xp is dropped On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > On tis, 2015-03-31 at 22:41 +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > > > so I was wondering if for 3.18/2.46 if we should drop XP. I think it > > would make our life easier and anyway why do we need to support > > something that microsoft is also not supporting? > > My opinion on this is that we should do this as soon as it is any kind > of inconvenience to us to support XP. I.E. if we add some non-optional > feature that doesn't work on XP. I don't think we necessarily have to > drop existing XP code "just because", let the existing support stay > there until it no longer works. > > Its possible that this is true already, I've not done any Win32 work > recently. If so, just drop it. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com > He's an otherworldly neurotic cyborg living undercover at Ringling Bros. > Circus. She's an enchanted green-skinned barmaid with an incredible > destiny. They fight crime! > > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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