On 06/26/2015 07:31 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Well, be aware that we don't officially support XP and haven't for a while. Odds are, it'll work in most cases, but there may be functionality in druntime or Phobos which relies on system calls added to Windows in Vista. So, while you're obviously free to use an older version of Windows if you want to, there's no guarantee that it'll work with a current or future release of dmd/druntime/Phobos/etc., and we won't fix it if it doesn't.
Considering that, according to that link Steven posted, XP still has nearly 10x the desktop market share of even Linux (1.57%? Can that even be right?), I think that policy is quite premature and rooted more in excuses rather than reason.
