What version of Windows is Wine equivalent to these days ?
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM, wm4 <[email protected]> wrote: > We were discussing some necessary library-safety cleanups on > #libav-devel. One of them is the removal of the "lock manager", which we > all agreed that it must die. This would be pretty simple with pthreads > and modern win32 APIs. But some of the win32 APIs which would make this > easy are not available on XP, such as the InitOnce* group of functions. > > Windows XP is ancient, and despite its popularity is not even supported > by Microsoft anymore. Windows 2003, which is on a similar level as XP > in supported APIs, is also being killed of by Microsoft. (Extended > support apparently ends in 13 days.) > > So the question is: would it be ok to finally drop XP support for the > sake of cleaner and simpler code? > > (Besides, even if we're forced to implement extra hacks for XP > compatibility, who is going to test it?) > _______________________________________________ > libav-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
