I think that’s manageable. -Jeff
On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I just spoke with Callek about his plans to move SeaMonkey off of their > existing Windows 2003 builders that cannot install Visual Studio 2012 or > newer, and it seems like Dec 15th is a date that will probably work fine for > SM, and that is still within the Gecko 37 cycle. Jeff, can we hold off the > Skia update plans until that date? > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Can you please ask them to not use variadic templates too? That also seems > to require MSVC 2013. > > > On 2014-10-16, 4:33 PM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > 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 <dma...@mozilla.com> 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" <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 > > > > > > > -- > Ehsan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
