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[Nasser Dassi <nasserd@xxxxxxxxx>]

MSFT support for XP SP 0/1/2 have come and gone.  Why would *we* concern
ourselves with a platform that, otherwise, provides no support?

(Rhetorical question.  Anything pre-XP SP3 should be out of the question no
matter what... and, uhh, let's use security as a simple open-and-shut-case
argument.)

- nasser

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Rivera, Rafael <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 5/20/2010 4:03 PM, Trent Nelson wrote:
> > I'm perplexed why anyone would want to forgo the advantages of C++ for
> > C; I can make my C++ DLLs just as small as C ones.  And, like, what if
> > I want a linked list, or a hash, or a set, are we planning on writing
> > all of those from scratch?  Even string handling alone seems like a
> > huge win.
>
> The major concern was dependencies. If we move to C++, we'd have to then
> start binding to, redistribute, and service the Microsoft Visual C++
> runtimes. If we used the latest version of the runtimes, for example,
> we'd drop support for Windows XP Service Pack 0, 1, and 2 machines plus
> exclude anyone using the Starter Edition SKU. (The latest runtimes don't
> install on these platforms.)
>
> /rafael
>
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