> From: "Gian-Carlo Pascutto" <gpascu...@mozilla.com> > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:23:34 AM > Subject: Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 > > On 27/08/2014 17:30, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > > I think our commitment to the Express versions should be "ensure it > > works with whatever Microsoft makes it easy to get a hold of". We should > > fix bugs that impact developers' ability to build with the versions of > > the toolchain we support, but I haven't seen that be a huge problem in > > practice. > > (I'm not sure why you particularly care about SP2 vs. SP3 > > here, we should just make sure we build with the latest version.) > > There's compelling advantages to be compiling with the exact same > toolchain as on the buildbots: you won't end up writing code that the > buildbot barfs on because it's on a newer/older toolchain, and if you > have a failure on try that might be compiler related, the odds are > bigger that you will be able to reproduce the exact issue locally if the > compiler matches to begin with. > > These issues aren't common, so indeed they're not a huge problem in > practice, but they're still nice-to-haves.
I don't find this particularly compelling, since invariably the buildbots that barf on me is B2G or OSX. I can't remember a time when my Windows build worked on Try but not on my Windows box, or vice-versa. It should be possible to acquire the same toolchain, but it's not that important for normal development. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
