[cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[Renato Golin]

On 31 October 2013 00:24, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Agreed. I think the question here is whether or not it's reasonable for
> this change and less whether or not it's reasonable as a path for each
> release to then deprecate everything more than 2 years old. I'd like to get
> rid of VS2010 because I want the features of 2012 and few of the current
> people developing on windows have spoken up (and most of them positively),
> but you do quite a bit of work and maintenance with windows so your
> thoughts are definitely important here. Do you think it's reasonable?
>

You guys are still taking it too literally... ;)

Let's take one decision at a time. We seem not to have any reason to keep
VS2010 support. Check box.

Next release we'll ask the same question for different versions of
different compilers, if necessary. And we can have the same discussion
every release and form a consensus for moving forward.

cheers,
--renato
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