[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [RFC] Raising LLVM minimum required MSVC version to 2013 for trunk

[Aaron Ballman]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Chris Bieneman <cbieneman at apple.com> wrote:
> +Alex Bradbury
>
> Sounds to me like we have no known users still on VS 2012.
>
> So, how about we plan to move forward again with Chandler’s proposal for making this transition. For those who don’t want to dig through to the beginning here’s the basic plan:
>
> 1) Loop in cfe-dev and lldb-dev (Done!)
> 2) Wait until this email fully circulates in digests and LLVM Weekly so that everyone who has an objection can voice it
> 3) If there are no objections, Commit a change to the CMake build which errors on old MSVC versions
> 4) Revert and fix buildbots
> 5) Repeat 3 & 4 until no issues
> 6) Once the change is live for a week with no issues, update the documentation to reflect the minimum required MSVC version as 2013

Also:

7) Update the documentation as to what minimum set of C++11 features
are allowed in the code base.

> Alex, can you please make sure that this plan makes it into the next LLVM Weekly? If there are no objections this time I will update CMake files a few days after the LLVM Weekly goes out.

Can you also handle the documentation updates a few days after the
CMake changes have been made live?

Thanks!

~Aaron