[cfe-dev] Supporting building clang/llvm with VS2012. Why that one?

[Dallman, John]

G M wrote:

> Any organisation can make any rule it likes, but it's not clear to me, subject to disk
> space, what reasonable rule would want to prevent someone installing a full Visual Studio
> and an Express VS version together, or hold both of them back at some old version and
> allow no other versions if they work fine side by side.
>
> If some organisation wanted to do that, it'd seem like that company would be even less
> likely to experiment with clang at all.

You are radically over-estimating the internal consistency of large organisations. Some of
them want to have standard configurations for machines, because that sounds good to people
who make policy, and means it's easy to replace machines that go bad. They are very capable
of failing to realise that would prevent use of new software, because the people who make
the policies either don't understand software development - thinking in terms of office
automation instead - or just fail to join the dots. Fortunately, most of them don't have
effective enforcement for their policies, so they can be worked around.

Remember, Dilbert is funny because it isn't exaggerated very much.

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