<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ted Kremenek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kremenek@apple.com" target="_blank" class="cremed">kremenek@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Renato Golin <<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" target="_blank" class="cremed">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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So, I didn't take Chandler's words that literally, but even if you do, four previous releases means 2 whole years. Given current interest from Microsoft towards C++ compatibility in their compiler, and the capacity they have of getting things done (basically, money), I'd be surprised if they'd fall behind for that long.</div>
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<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The timeframe “2 whole years” might seem like a long time to us, but not everybody lives in the world where they adopt new toolsets so quickly. That’s my concern about dropping VS 2010 support. So this is both a question about how fast Visual Studio moves, but also the people who use Visual Studio.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Again, I wanted to use "2 years" as mostly a basic guidance. It's at most a starting point, and then you factor everything else into the equation.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">The right now we have a bunch of new-found interest and contributions going into Windows (potentially benefitting from newer C++ features), and MSVC is simultaneously catching up with the C++ language at an unprecedented rate. As a consequence, I think it makes a lot of sense to be a bit aggressive right now w/ MSVC, likely relaxing this somewhat as the rate of change settles a bit.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But as Eric said, the question is, does this seem reasonable? Especially as you're working and contributing to trunk, I think its important to understand if this would cause problems.</div>
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