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

[Nathan Ridge]

>> So, by dropping support for VS 2010, you will be making any developer
>> who uses Windows XP - potentially a large number of developers given
>> Windows XP's still huge market share - unable to build clang.
>
> We could create some special bonware that installs 7 on any XP machine
> it encounters. Volunteers?

Not everyone thinks that such a thing would be bonware [1].
 
Regards,
Nate
 
[1] http://en.windows7sins.org/