I was thinking it would be nice to support VS2010 as long as any of our main channels use it -- meaning we could drop it on the first day of 39. But I have no practical justification for that. If it causes a burden on Skia work then it might be reasonable to switch sooner.
> This set: http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/ What MS compiler does that list require? There's a number of people building with VS2012, would that still be supported? David ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Muizelaar" <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> > To: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > Cc: "dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org list" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 9:14:19 AM > Subject: Re: Compiler version expectations > > > On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2014-10-16, 3:49 PM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > >> After some discussion some IRC it was clear that our compiler deprecation > >> schedule is not very clear. > >> > >> Now that we’re using VS2013 on trunk and will soon not being using GCC 4.4 > >> for B2G, I expect we’ll be dropping support for building with VS2010 and > >> GCC 4.4 in the near term. > > > > GCC is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077549. No specific > > bug or plans for MSVC2010, but I'd be open to killing support for it on > > the next release train. > > > >> This is important to us because Skia is planing on using more C++11 > >> features in the near term and we’d like to continue updating from > >> upstream. Are there reasons we can’t drop support for these compilers in > >> the 37-38 time frame? > > > > What C++11 features specifically? > > This set: http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/ > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
