Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible Windows development agendas for the next 6 months

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2019-06-11 17:29-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:

> I found this in my spam--sorry for the delay and sorry for too posting. I'll take a look at the list and work a plan of action.  My quick read is that it should be doable. I think the earliest version of windows we should support is win7. Keeping XP support will be a challenge.

Hi Jim:

I hope you can figure out a way to tune up your spam filters so PLplot
traffic is not interfered with.  The spam filter I use is
called [SpamBayes](http://spambayes.sourceforge.net), and it works
well for me.

In any case, I am glad you reviewed your spam folder and as a result we
are now back in e-mail contact again.

According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>, XP was introduced in 2001, Microsoft
quit fundamental support for it in 2014, and the percentage of Windows users who
are still using it has dropped to ~2 per cent as of a few months ago.  So yes, I am fine
with us dropping XP support as well.

@Jim: I am glad to hear you think this agenda is doable for you during
this release cycle (especially when not worrying about XP support).

Alan
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