Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-10 Thread Gregory Szorc
Visual Studio 2015 has been out for a while. Many people have put in work to make Firefox build on it. The time has come to officially transition release builds from Visual Studio 2013 to Visual Studio 2015. This email serves as an intent to switch automation to Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (latest

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-10 Thread Aaron Klotz
I'm looking forward to this! On 3/10/2016 9:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: A host of new C++ features should be available after the switch. Although, we may have to drop support for VS2013 before those can be fully realized. I defer to others to determine when VS2013 will be dropped. There's e

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-10 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Aaron Klotz wrote: > I'm looking forward to this! > > On 3/10/2016 9:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> >> A host of new C++ features should be available after the switch. Although, >> we may have to drop support for VS2013 before those can be fully realized. >> I

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, >> mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> What about the depreciation of XP SP2? >> >> Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with >> VS2015u1. This may not always hold true. So we will

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2016-03-18 6:43 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > >> On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: What about the depreciation of XP SP2? Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with >

RE: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-19 Thread Yuhong Bao
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, > mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > What about the depreciation of XP SP2? > > Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with > VS2015u1. This may not always hold true. So we will need to have the XP > SP2 discussion at some

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-19 Thread yuhongbao_386
What about the depreciation of XP SP2? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-19 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Visual Studio 2015 has been out for a while. Many people have put in work > to make Firefox build on it. The time has come to officially transition > release builds from Visual Studio 2013 to Visual Studio 2015. > > This email serves as an i

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-19 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, wrote: > What about the depreciation of XP SP2? > Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with VS2015u1. This may not always hold true. So we will need to have the XP SP2 discussion at some point. I defer to bsmedberg to start that discu

RE: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-21 Thread Yuhong Bao
> On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, >>> mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >>> What about the depreciation of XP SP2? >>> >>> Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries built with >>> VS2015u1. This may not always hold true. So we

RE: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-21 Thread Yuhong Bao
> On 2016-03-18 6:43 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: >> >>> On 2016-03-17 8:35 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, > mailto:yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > What about the depreciation of XP SP2? > > Results from bug 1124017 say XP SP2 still works on binaries buil

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-23 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> Visual Studio 2015 has been out for a while. Many people have put in >> work to make Firefox build on it. The time has come to officially >> transition release builds from Visual

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-24 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >> >>> Visual Studio 2015 has been out for a while. Many people have put in >>> work to make Firefox build on it. The time

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-24 Thread Xidorn Quan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> > >>> Visual Studio 2015 has been out for a while

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-24 Thread Gregory Szorc
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 23:25, Xidorn Quan wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Gregory Szorc

Re: Intent to switch to Visual Studio 2015

2016-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson
On 3/24/16 9:44 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: Inbound is now building with VS2015! Chromium switched to VS2015 in March 2016. The following blog post details some of the compiler bugs Google found. It might be worth reviewing them in case Firefox runs into any of them. https://randomascii.wordpr