Hi all, Over in bug 866425, we're planning to drop support for MSVC2005/2008. MSVC2010 and MSVC2012 will remain supported compilers for Windows.
Previously there was no free (as in beer) version of MSVC2010 so we had to support those older compilers to make it possible to build Mozilla with a free build environment, but MSVC2010 Express is now freely available, and there is no good reason to keep supporting those old compilers any more. Note that this patch just makes configure be explicit about our implicit policy. Over the past few years we've been consistently breaking those old compilers, which meant the users of those compilers were in constant pain when a new change broke their build. Those users should upgrade to MSVC2010 now, in order to enjoy a supported build environment. This change will only affect mozilla-central, and will ride the trains as any other change would. Cheers, -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
