[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] Revisiting our informal policy to support two versions of MSVC

[Nico Weber via cfe-dev]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Robinson, Paul via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> For my project, timing is everything.  We (and I could easily imagine,
> for many downstream projects) lead time is important.
>

In Chromium land, we've so far been able to use the same compiler we use to
build Chrome to build clang. Currently that's MSVS2015 update 2, and it
took quite a while to update from 2013 to 2015 due bugs in 2015 and
whatnot. So I agree that it's useful to support older MSVS versions for
some time. For this reason, requiring update 3 would be inconvenient for
us, but 2015u2 would be no problem by now. It would've been a problem if
2015 had been required shortly after it was released.

Nico
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