Callek, can you please confirm that the Dec 15th date is still good for you? I'm planning to land a patch to drop support for MSVC 2010 on that day.
Thanks! Ehsan On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Ehsan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
