On 27/08/2014 17:30, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > 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.)
There's compelling advantages to be compiling with the exact same toolchain as on the buildbots: you won't end up writing code that the buildbot barfs on because it's on a newer/older toolchain, and if you have a failure on try that might be compiler related, the odds are bigger that you will be able to reproduce the exact issue locally if the compiler matches to begin with. These issues aren't common, so indeed they're not a huge problem in practice, but they're still nice-to-haves. -- GCP _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
