> On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, >>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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. That is why I suggested timelines such as dropping support for XP SP2 at the same time as moving to VS2015 in 2016. Yuhong Bao _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
