On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 06:57:15AM -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On 8/26/2014 2:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > > When do we support old version of Visual Studio after switching to > > VS2013? > > > > Now we still support VS2010 + SDK 7.1 as minimal requirement. > > > Generally we have worked with a few unofficial guidelines for toolchain > support: > 1) If an older version of a toolchain is holding us back from using some > C++ feature in the codebase, we may drop support for it so we can use > more modern C++ > 2) If the cost of supporting an older toolchain in terms of its bugs > becomes excessive we may drop support for it > 3) Try to support toolchains that are widely used by developers > > We generally don't drop support for a toolchain immediately upon > switching, we ought to have a grace period of a release or two to give > other developers time to make the change if they've been following our > lead. Even then, I'm not sure if VS2010 is the thing holding us back > from using new C++ features, or if one of the B2G GCC compilers is > holding us back.
Relatedly, we need to ensure it's still possible to build Firefox with the express version of MSVC (the free of charge one) corresponding to the minimum MSVC version we support. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
