Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2015-01-10 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Hi, On Di, 2014-12-30 at 09:45 +, John Emmas wrote: > I work on an audio product called Mixbus which uses gtk+ (albeit gtk2, > rather than gtk3):- > > http://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html > > I've been arguing for a year or more that we should phase out XP support > - but the more

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-31 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:45:11 +, John Emmas wrote: > Perhaps Microsoft itself should be the guiding factor? If Microsoft > starts bringing out products which can't be run on XP, that might be the > right time for gtk+ to start dropping it. Office 2013 doesn't even run on Vista, let alone XP

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: > I also make > a totally uninformed 'gut' guess that the people who are still running > XP are probably not the kind of people (by and large) who are into > installing new versions of software on their computers anyway (ie: they > won't be usin

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Fan Chun-wei, On Tue, Dec 30, 2014, at 03:26, Fan Chun-wei wrote: > -There are some things that required specialized implementations for XP, > for example, SRWLock in GLib and networking items in GIO, which may or > may not work well. > (for example, by using inet_pton() directly in ginetad

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Hubert Figuière
On 30/12/14 08:30 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > there's also the aspect of other projects in the larger free and open > source software ecosystem. what is Firefox doing? what is LibreOffice > doing? what is Qt doing? are we the last holdout? Firefox still supports Windows XP [1]. It still represent

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Martyn Russell
On 30/12/14 13:30, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I've been arguing for a year or more that we should phase out XP support - but the more senior devs don't agree. Why? Because a surprising number of our Windows users are still running XP (probably more than a third). XP is still far more common than y

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 30 December 2014 at 12:48, Martyn Russell wrote: >> I work on an audio product called Mixbus which uses gtk+ (albeit gtk2, >> rather than gtk3):- >> >> http://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html we're definitely not dropping support in GTK 2.x; that branch is done, for better or worse.

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Martyn Russell
On 30/12/14 09:45, John Emmas wrote: I work on an audio product called Mixbus which uses gtk+ (albeit gtk2, rather than gtk3):- http://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html I've been arguing for a year or more that we should phase out XP support - but the more senior devs don't agree. Why? Be

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread John Emmas
I work on an audio product called Mixbus which uses gtk+ (albeit gtk2, rather than gtk3):- http://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html I've been arguing for a year or more that we should phase out XP support - but the more senior devs don't agree. Why? Because a surprising number of our Wi

Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
+1 to drop it On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Fan Chun-wei wrote: > Hi, > > Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! > > I understand that this has been brought up before, but I think probably > it's time to gather views on whether we should start to drop XP support, as: > > -There are some things th

Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

2014-12-30 Thread Fan Chun-wei
Hi, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! I understand that this has been brought up before, but I think probably it's time to gather views on whether we should start to drop XP support, as: -There are some things that required specialized implementations for XP, for example, SRWLock in GLib an