> On 2016-03-18 6:43 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >> >>> On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, >>>>> <yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com<mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> What about the depreciation of XP SP2? >>>>> >>>>> Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with >>>>> VS2015u1. This may not always hold true. So we will need to have the XP >>>>> SP2 discussion at some point. I defer to bsmedberg to start that >>>>> discussion. >>>> I was originally thinking of dropping XP SP2 at the same time as moving to >>>> VS2015 this year. >>> >>> Yuhong, hello again! :-) >>> >>> I'm not sure why you keep trying to get Mozilla to drop support for >>> Windows XP SP2. I think we have had this discussion numerous times, >>> some recent examples include bug 1124017, bug 1236931, bug 1064387, bug >>> 1136775, etc (also in other fora such as >>> <https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-planning/2015-June/000770.html>. >>> >>> In case the previous discussions have not made this clear, we will *not* >>> drop support for Windows XP SP2 because one person keeps asking for it. >>> There are a lot of reasons why we would consider dropping support for a >>> platform, for a very recent example you can see the thread about >>> dropping support for OSX 10.6-8 going on in the past couple of weeks, I >>> suggest reading previous similar discussion to get a better >>> understanding of why making this decision is a lot trickier than it may >>> appear at first. >> >> Obviously not, especially not immediately. It takes time for market share >> for older platforms to drop. > > Agreed. > >> That is why I suggested timelines such as dropping support for XP SP2 at the >> same time as moving to VS2015 in 2016. > > Why do you think that us moving to VS2015 will suddenly cause the users > on this OS to upgrade to a newer OS, or disappear some other way?
This timeline came from what MS officially supported. Of course, it later turned out that it was easier to support XP SP2 on VS2015 than VS2013. Yuhong Bao _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
