Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Horn
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Orestis Markou wrote: > > On 30 Οκτ 2013, at 12:34 π.μ., Glyph wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn wrote: > > It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I > know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Window

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Horn
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Glyph wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn wrote: > > It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I > know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in > VMs, especially if they're usually working i

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-30 Thread Orestis Markou
On 30 Οκτ 2013, at 12:34 π.μ., Glyph wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn wrote: > >> It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I >> know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in >> VMs, especially if they're usually wor

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-29 Thread Glyph
On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn wrote: > It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I > know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in VMs, > especially if they're usually working in Linux or Mac OS X. Do you, yourself do this?

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-28 Thread Kevin Horn
It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in VMs, especially if they're usually working in Linux or Mac OS X. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Sank wrote: > > If you're still running XP

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
> > Not according to the statistics that Valve themselves publish about Steam. > Did you read the link in the original email? > Yeah, I didn't see a correlation though of what kind of hardware those folks were running. They could be running ancient stuff and are prepared to deal with the conseque

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread Glyph
On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > If you're still running XP isn't it pretty unlikely you have hardware modern > enough to power a Steam game in the first place? Not according to the statistics that Valve themselves publish about Steam. Did you read the link in the

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Sank
> If you're still running XP isn't it pretty unlikely you have > hardware modern enough to power a Steam game in the > first place? You'd be surprised. I have an XP machine at work because I never bothered to buy a new license for Win7, but I've upgraded the hardware reasonably recently. I have no

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
If you're still running XP isn't it pretty unlikely you have hardware modern enough to power a Steam game in the first place? -J Sent via iPhone Is your email Premiere? > On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:51, Glyph wrote: > > >> On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:07 AM, HawkOwl wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread Glyph
On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:07 AM, HawkOwl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have raised the question of Windows XP support in Twisted earlier today in > #twisted-dev. Since the Microsoft "extended support" cut-off is within six or > so months, and there is continuing trouble with the XP-based buildslave

[Twisted-Python] Twisted Users on Windows XP

2013-10-23 Thread HawkOwl
Hi everyone, I have raised the question of Windows XP support in Twisted earlier today in #twisted-dev. Since the Microsoft "extended support" cut-off is within six or so months, and there is continuing trouble with the XP-based buildslave, I think it would be a good idea to get a figure of h