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? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
