On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 04:14 PM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote:
> The good news is that dxr does not find anything using IsXPSP3OrLater().
> But this looks like we have a bit of version specific code in our tree:
> https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=XP_WIN&redirect=false&case=true

FYI, the "XP" here means "cross-platform", and XP_WIN is set whenever
we're building for Windows.


> And on top of that come the costs for maintaining XP machines as part of
> the treeherder setup.
> 
> So it is not easy to quantify, but there is a “XP tax” we pay.

This is true. We hit this with toolchain support, we're actively jumping
through hoops to continue targeting XP with newer versions of MSVC.

-Ted
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