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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] Fwd: Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows

From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
To: mingw-w64-public at lists dot sourceforge dot net
Cc: vanboxem dot ruben at gmail dot com, MinGW Users List <mingw-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net>, "libstdc++" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 21:39:59 +0200
Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] Fwd: Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
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2012/5/9 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
> <vanboxem.ruben@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> That said, a new threading model is great, but essentially unusable on
>> Windows XP. Which today might be a problem for people distributing binaries.
>> They'll have to build two versions (as I've said before) and confuse their
>> users even more than the usual 32-bit/64-bit drama people still experience.
>
> MS announced end of XP support in less than 2 years...
> We are going to have this model through at least 2017 :-)
>
> -- Gaby

Yes, then we are free to drop XP support ;)
Well, seriously.  It is hard to believe, but there are still Win9x
users running in the wild.  So it will take for sure much longer that
XP support can be dropped finally.

Kai

References:
- Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: K. Frank
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: K. Frank
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: [Mingw-users] Fwd: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis

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