On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:36:43PM -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2014-12-17 5:43 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: > >On 12/17/2014 10:10 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > >>Note that this is not a change in our in-production compiler for Windows > >>(MSVC 2013), it just disables building with MSVC 2010 locally. MSVC 2012 > >>and 2013 can still be used to build Firefox on Windows. > > > >Is the plan/intent to keep MSVC 2012 working or not? With 2013, we do > >get a few cool features (variadic templates, initializer lists among them). > > > >The context is curating this page: > ><https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code>. > > I don't remember any discussion about dropping MSVC 2012. I know that we > have traditionally kept at least a couple of MSVC versions working for a > long time, but I would be curious to know if someone has a specific reason > why we should not drop MSVC 2012.
There's not much benefit to do so until we require GCC 4.6. Then we can reconsider. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
