[LLVMdev] [RFC] Raising minimum required Visual Studio version to 2013 for trunk

[Chris Bieneman]

I don't mean to imply we should change this on three days notice, but I do think there seems to be quite a bit of interest and very little opposition. I think we should at least entertain moving forward sooner than the nebulous release date of MSVC 14 if nobody is tied to 2012.

-Chris

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>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:48 PM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
>> This thread hasn’t had too much traffic, but it sounds like many people are
>> in favor and there is no strong opposition. If I understand Aaron’s only
>> objection was based on preserving existing policy rather than a technical
>> reason.
>> 
>> Anyone want to make the official call?
> 
> I am still opposed.
> 
> We told the community less than nine months ago (when we made the
> C++11 switch) that we would support the last two versions of MSVC. Now
> we're saying "only the latest version, because it has nice things."
> That would make sense if those nice things were something we couldn't
> live without, or if there was a long delay for a new release of MSVC.
> Neither of those things seem to be the case, so I'm not certain why we
> would change our developer policy on three day's notice.
> 
> ~Aaron