From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209326 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Yes, I remember you saying and I remain surprised that you use such an >> old operating system, and presumably computer. I guess we wait till your >> machine breaks before we move to XP. > > FWIW, I don't see much point in discontinuing support for XP. At least > not until we bump into some situation where preserving compatibility > with XP causes significant extra work, or until XP is sufficiently rare. > Currently XP is pretty far from rare in my experience (many users stuck > to XP and resisted upgrading because the subsequent versions delivered > by Microsoft were perceived to be worse in some respects, which is why > Microsoft ended up having to extend support of XP until as late as 2014). Yes, that's all true. I hung onto XP until the bitter end. And, it doesn't require any statements in the README which is what got me here in the first place. No worries. Phil