On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Ted Mielczarek <t...@mielczarek.org> wrote:

> On 2/26/2014 2:15 AM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> > When do we plan to drop support for Visual Studio 2010?  I remember at
> > one point that it was not possible to generate builds that ran on
> > Windows XP with VS2010, but Update 1 (released in November) added
> > support for that.
> >
> There are no immediate plans for this AFAIK. We're still using VS2010 as
> the compiler for our official builds. We were investigating VS2013 to
> replace it since 2013 ships with a 64 bit -> 32 bit cross toolchain,
> which would alleviate our PGO memory usage woes permanently, but in the
> meantime between the "include what you use" and unified build work the
> PGO linker memory usage has gone way down anyway, so it's not pressing.
>

FWIW that work is stalled on a compiler bug, and we won't be able to switch
to VS2013 until that is resolved by Microsoft.

Cheers,
Ehsan
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