Re: Should We Start Dropping Windows XP Support?

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

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?  Because a surprising
> number of our Windows users are still running XP (probably more than a
> third).  XP is still far more common than you might think.

I agree that we should base this decision on numbers.

When I was porting to Windows some years back, one of the more positive 
things about using GTK+, was the fact that the same installer/app would 
work across a lot of versions of Windows. It was my experience that 
native app developers always had to write compatibility layers and it 
cost them time. I think this is a feature that makes life for developers 
much easier.

If what John says is true (about 1/3 are stilling using XP), I would 
vote to wait a while.

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Regards,
Martyn

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