Merging feature/commonsallayout branch

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:11:25PM -0700, yphilips wrote:
> So cloph asked in QA about testing SAL_USE_COMMON_LAYOUT on windows XP and i
> did and it crashed on startup, so unless we want to alienate XP users from
> running 5.3, we'd likely need to put in a flag to disable it for XP.

So that is not as bad as I thought it would be. We can have a runtime
check for 5.3 that forces disable CommonSalLayout for Windows XP. We can
then communicate in advance that we are dropping Windows XP support in
5.4 (since we will remove the old code by then).

WDYT?

Regards,
Khaled