On 9 December 2013 23:23, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > As Kenneth reminds us[1], Microsoft is ending the security updates for Windows > XP in April 2014. That's about when we plan to release Qt 5.3. > > Should we stop supporting Windows XP? Is there anything we can improve in our > codebase if we do?
I would like to, but I'm not sure we can quite yet given how widespread its use still is. OTOH people won't move unless the industry gives them reason to do so by dropping support :-) Localization would benefit, or at least would be cleaner. Vista added a lot of new APIs and features I'd like to use without having to fudge things on XP, like we do in QCollator. It would also mean the WinRT port wouldn't need to ifdef everywhere to replace LCIDs with locale names and the potential for behaviour differences that brings. Printing I haven't noticed any new API at all. If 5.3 is a stabilization release and on a shorter release cycle, and comes out about the XP EoL date, then perhaps it would be a good final release to offer XP users, with 5.4 giving us more time to replace XP code and make sure there's no regressions? Or would the WinRT port benefit from us doing it sooner? John. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
