Hi, Here's the last month of Windows visitors for blender.org: http://www.blender.org/bf/Browser_OS_Analytics.pdf
One million visits, 70% win7, 14% XP still. -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands On 19 May, 2013, at 3:07, bjornmose wrote: > Well our statistics on world wide professionals ( using scientific > measuring software ) says: > > 10% win7, 50% win XP, very few vista the remains even older :) > and we do full support down to W2k. ( to Daniel .. including Europe , > USA and former UDSSR ) > How stupid is that to keep customers satisfied? > > Dropping Win8 support is no option, though i hope it will be like > ignoring 'vista' for good. > Says the next Win8 (X point anything internally ) will be as nice as Win > 7 was .. plus providing some nice new features. > Please no OS religions here, but fencing out XP users is suicide. > > Am 17.05.2013 21:38, schrieb Damir Prebeg: >> My advance apologies for this... After a few days of painful experience I >> would strongly recommend dropping of Win8 support. >> >> >> On 17 May 2013 17:26, Daniel Genrich <daniel.genr...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >>> +1 for that. >>> >>> Dropping Win XP would be too soon since many people from south america >>> and africa are still using Win XP. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> >>> Am 17.05.2013 15:25, schrieb Thomas Dinges: >>>> Hi, >>>> if we do that, we could only build 2 builds. >>>> >>>> 32 bit: Compile with vc2008 for Windows XP and above >>>> 64 bit: Compile with vc2012 for Vista x64 and above >>>> >>>> We don't need x64 build for Windows XP, XP x64 is maybe used by 0.1%. >>>> >>>> This way all OS / bit configs would be served, and we don't have big >>>> overhead. >>>> >>>> Thomas >>>> >>>> Am 17.05.2013 15:14, schrieb Sergey Sharybin: >>>>> Also, we could do some "gradual" drop: meaning if vc2012's builds would >>> not >>>>> be able to run on XP, we could compile two versions of blender -- one >>> with >>>>> msvc2008 and other one with msvc2012. We did quite the same thing with >>>>> linux builds as well (building it against different libc version using >>>>> older and newer gcc versions). >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers