Re: Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Nathan Froyd
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 6:10 PM Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > Can someone elaborate on what this means for debugging on Windows, and > for our onboarding story on Windows? At least in terms of stepping through, examining variables, etc., clang-cl is on par with MSVC. If there are specific, stop-the-pr

Re: Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
Can someone elaborate on what this means for debugging on Windows, and for our onboarding story on Windows? I don't do this very often, but I ran into this today and the story is already very poor. I'm currently trying to work out why a patch I have crashes on startup. I tried using google, an

Re: Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 03:34:59PM -0500, Jonathan Kew wrote: While I sympathize with the concern that "supporting more than one compiler is a maintenance burden", this still leaves me feeling a little uneasy. Ensuring that our code builds successfully with multiple compilers is a useful way to

Re: Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 06/12/2018 15:00, Ted Mielczarek wrote: Hello, In light of the fact that we've switched to clang-cl for our Windows builds[1], we are planning to drop support for compiling Firefox with MSVC in the near future[2]. Our estimate is that this will happen sometime in Q1. Supporting more than o

Re: Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Kris Maglione
\o/ On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 03:00:12PM -0500, Ted Mielczarek wrote: Hello, In light of the fact that we've switched to clang-cl for our Windows builds[1], we are planning to drop support for compiling Firefox with MSVC in the near future[2]. Our estimate is that this will happen sometime in Q

Dropping support for compiling with MSVC in the near future

2018-12-06 Thread Ted Mielczarek
Hello, In light of the fact that we've switched to clang-cl for our Windows builds[1], we are planning to drop support for compiling Firefox with MSVC in the near future[2]. Our estimate is that this will happen sometime in Q1. Supporting more than one compiler is a maintenance burden and we've