Re: Dropping support for building with MSVC2005/2008

This just landed on mozilla-inbound. -- Ehsan On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Hi all, > > Over in bug 866425, we're planning to drop support for MSVC2005/2008. > MSVC2010 and MSVC2012 will remain supported compilers for Windows. > > Previously

Dropping support for building with MSVC2005/2008

Hi all, Over in bug 866425, we're planning to drop support for MSVC2005/2008. MSVC2010 and MSVC2012 will remain supported compilers for Windows. Previously there was no free (as in beer) version of MSVC2010 so we had to support those older compilers to make it possible to build Mozilla with a fre