I said in irc yesterday that SeaMonkey is NOT ready yet, however I see no
reason to change the plan of record. I expect us to have a good solution in
less than a month.  (As in yes go ahead and land that patch)

Thank you for the followup.
On Dec 13, 2014 1:07 PM, "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Callek, can you please confirm that the Dec 15th date is still good for
> you?  I'm planning to land a patch to drop support for MSVC 2010 on that
> day.
>
> Thanks!
> Ehsan
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think that’s manageable.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> So I just spoke with Callek about his plans to move SeaMonkey off of
>> their existing Windows 2003 builders that cannot install Visual Studio 2012
>> or newer, and it seems like Dec 15th is a date that will probably work fine
>> for SM, and that is still within the Gecko 37 cycle.  Jeff, can we hold off
>> the Skia update plans until that date?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you please ask them to not use variadic templates too?  That also
>>> seems to require MSVC 2013.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2014-10-16, 4:33 PM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Type aliasing requires 2013, but we can probably keep them from using
>>>> that for now. I don’t think asking them to support VS2012 will be too much
>>>> of a burden.
>>>>
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 4:29 PM, David Major <dma...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I was thinking it would be nice to support VS2010 as long as any of
>>>>> our main channels use it -- meaning we could drop it on the first day of
>>>>> 39. But I have no practical justification for that. If it causes a burden
>>>>> on Skia work then it might be reasonable to switch sooner.
>>>>>
>>>>>  This set: http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>> What MS compiler does that list require? There's a number of people
>>>>> building with VS2012, would that still be supported?
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: "Jeff Muizelaar" <jmuizel...@mozilla.com>
>>>>>> To: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> Cc: "dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org list" <
>>>>>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 9:14:19 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Compiler version expectations
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On 2014-10-16, 3:49 PM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After some discussion some IRC it was clear that our compiler
>>>>>>>> deprecation
>>>>>>>> schedule is not very clear.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now that we’re using VS2013 on trunk and will soon not being using
>>>>>>>> GCC 4.4
>>>>>>>> for B2G, I expect we’ll be dropping support for building with
>>>>>>>> VS2010 and
>>>>>>>> GCC 4.4  in the near term.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> GCC is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077549.  No
>>>>>>> specific
>>>>>>> bug or plans for MSVC2010, but I'd be open to killing support for it
>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>> the next release train.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  This is important to us because Skia is planing on using more C++11
>>>>>>>> features in the near term and we’d like to continue updating from
>>>>>>>> upstream. Are there reasons we can’t drop support for these
>>>>>>>> compilers in
>>>>>>>> the 37-38 time frame?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What C++11 features specifically?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This set: http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Jeff
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ehsan
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ehsan
>
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