Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

2017-11-16 Thread Kevin Reed 

Juha Sointusalo  wrote on 11/16/2017 03:23:50
PM:

>> On 16 November 2017 at 23:04, Kevin Reed  wrote:
>> That makes sense.  Thanks for letting me know.  Has there been a
decision
>> about when BOINC will stop supporting Windows XP?
>
> David said recently, somewhere can't remember where, that he would
> like that XP is still supported. I think Seti still has/had a couple
> of thousand XP host.

Ok.  WCG currently has 2,042 Windows XP hosts with expavg_credit > 0.5.
That is 0.7% of our active hosts and 0.5% of our computing power.

I haven't been tracking that as a trend over time, but if 7.8 were to be
the last client supporting Windows XP we would be ok with that.  Most
Windows XP users and projects would be able to continue to accept
contributions from them using the last version of the client that support
Windows XP for several years.  We still have a surprising number of users
using the BOINC 6.10 client.

However, I don't know if 2013 (or newer) offers any advantages over 2010 so
I'm not making a recommendation or proposal - just citing some information.
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Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

2017-11-16 Thread Juha Sointusalo 
On 16 November 2017 at 23:04, Kevin Reed  wrote:

> That makes sense.  Thanks for letting me know.  Has there been a decision
> about when BOINC will stop supporting Windows XP?
>

David said recently, somewhere can't remember where, that he would like
that XP is still supported. I think Seti still has/had a couple of thousand
XP host.

-Juha
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Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

2017-11-16 Thread Kevin Reed 
Juha Sointusalo  wrote on 11/16/2017 02:29:51
PM:

>
>> On 15 November 2017 at 23:40, Kevin Reed  wrote:
>> The dependencies included in the 7.8.2 client version appear to be newer
>> than the ones in the boinc_depends_win_vs2013 repository so I was
wondering
>> if there was a different source.
>
> I believe there was some problem with XP compatibility with VS2013
> builds so Rom and David went back to building the official releases
> with VS2010. I suppose at that point keeping the VS2013 dependencies
> up-to-date was forgotten.
>

That makes sense.  Thanks for letting me know.  Has there been a decision
about when BOINC will stop supporting Windows XP?

For the record, building the client using vs2013 and the 2013 dependencies
was pretty straight forward and the binary ran correctly on Windows 7 (in
case anybody was wondering if the build even worked).
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Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

2017-11-16 Thread Juha Sointusalo 
On 15 November 2017 at 23:40, Kevin Reed  wrote:

> The dependencies included in the 7.8.2 client version appear to be newer
> than the ones in the boinc_depends_win_vs2013 repository so I was wondering
> if there was a different source.
>

I believe there was some problem with XP compatibility with VS2013 builds
so Rom and David went back to building the official releases with VS2010. I
suppose at that point keeping the VS2013 dependencies up-to-date was
forgotten.

-Juha
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[boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

2017-11-15 Thread Kevin Reed 


Greetings,

I'm building the windows client as per the directions found on
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CompileClient

Are the instructions for getting the dependencies still correct based on:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit#Windowsbuilddependencies
?

The dependencies included in the 7.8.2 client version appear to be newer
than the ones in the boinc_depends_win_vs2013 repository so I was wondering
if there was a different source.

Thanks,

Kevin

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