Type aliasing requires 2013, but we can probably keep them from using that for now. I don’t think asking them to support VS2012 will be too much of a burden.
-Jeff On Oct 16, 2014, at 4:29 PM, David Major <[email protected]> wrote: > 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" <[email protected]> >> To: "Ehsan Akhgari" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected] list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 9:14:19 AM >> Subject: Re: Compiler version expectations >> >> >> On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
