On 04/10/2014 02:15 PM, musikbear wrote: > topic should focus the issue - XP + lmms > There are still alot of users on xp. *sigh +blush* ygtp.. > Firstly 1.0 runs on xp as a wet /dream/ > Not just run- it gallops! U. Bolt is envious.. > It is totally possible to run /several/ instances of lmms /simultanous/ -not > just run, but actively playback and editing. That has /never/ been possible > not even remotely, with previous versions. the 1.0 team has done a /super/ > job! > My thoughts on this is of-cause 'tainted' of my OS.. -but as long as at > least nothing is done to actively shut out xp-users on purpose, i can > understand if the devs are not going to use extra time on xp specific fixes, > but there will be a user-drop, if lmms drops xp. lmms is freeware for the > poor, and xp is on many poor peeps pc's. Easy math :) -right? >
XP will be EOL soon. (Or was it already?) That means that when you use XP, your OS will gradually bitrot, it will not get updates, it'll just be getting worse and worse security-wise, as well as other issues that may crop up... until one day it won't run at all. Personally, I seriously doubt whether there will be any kind of significant "user drop" with dropping of XP. Since 1.0 runs on XP, and anyone using XP obviously has no problem with using outdated software, they can just keep on using 1.0 forever if it happens that future versions don't work on it... of course we won't deliberately break support on XP, but if some new feature brings even a marginal benefit to LMMS and it happens to break XP support, I'd say that's a non-problem. That said, this is all pretty much academic speculation - I've been told the current LMMS can even run on older windowses, and I don't really see what could be such a feature that would break XP support. But I guess it could happen, you never know... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
