When did y'all drop XP support?

[Katie Boundary]

VLC 3.0.8 installs on XP with no complaints but 3.0.17 and 3.0.18 don't. I haven't yet tested all of the versions in between.

[Lotesdelere]

AFAIK support for XP is not dropped at all yet with the v3.x branch. It will be dropped in VLC 4.x.

But... It looks like there are random problems with some DLLs:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 10#p516110
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 63#p514963
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/20033

Also maybe some requirements:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/21887

But I'm afraid it's not really maintained anymore :
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/ ... ote_260987
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 76#p514576

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

In principles, VLC 3.0 doesn't increase requirements above XP SP3. But if some component (say Qt) requires a higher version, we're not going to block updates just for XP at the expense of everything else.

Strictly speaking, XP has been out of vendor support for years.

[Katie Boundary]

The vendor support argument has always been nonsense. XP was the last version of Windows that didn't suck. If enough software vendors got together and agreed to only support good version of Windows, rather than whatever was newest, they could force Microsoft to pull their heads out of their asses and make Windows good again.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You're free to stick to XP if you think that that's the best OS version. Just stick with application versions XP.

The OS vendor support argument is perfectly valid as far as application vendor support is concerned. It's not like we are retroactively removing XP support from past VLC versions (and you can still download them from the official archives).

Also FWIW, as a system software developer, Windows XP absolutely sucks. Graphics driver are awful and the APIs are awfully dated and inadequate, while the audio HAL is nonexistent.

[Katie Boundary]

Windows XP absolutely sucks. Graphics driver are awful and the APIs are awfully dated and inadequate, while the audio HAL is nonexistent.

Issues that affect 99.99% of users are more important than issues that affect the other 0.01%

You're in the 0.01%.