On 8/27/2014 10:22 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > On 26/08/2014 13:06, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> 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. > It seems to work fine with MSVC2013 Express - I'm using it for > development now. > > One issue related to the discussion in bug 914596 is that it's harder to > find the non-latest-version of the Express version. That is, if you > install Express now, you get SP3. > > It's probably possible to get SP2 anyhow, but I couldn't easily find a way. > I think our commitment to the Express versions should be "ensure it works with whatever Microsoft makes it easy to get a hold of". We should fix bugs that impact developers' ability to build with the versions of the toolchain we support, but I haven't seen that be a huge problem in practice. (I'm not sure why you particularly care about SP2 vs. SP3 here, we should just make sure we build with the latest version.)
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