On 24 July 2014 18:51, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 24/07/2014 19:39, Joerg Mayer a écrit : > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 06:20:48PM +0100, Graham Bloice wrote: > >> On 24 July 2014 18:08, Joerg Mayer <jma...@loplof.de> wrote: > >> > >>> IIRC there was some discussion which versions of VS should still be > >>> supported, > >>> but I failed to find it in the archives. So, was there some consensus > >>> which is > >>> the oldest version we are going to support with master? > >>> > >>> > >> I brought up the issue of moving to VS2013 for master, and separately > >> dropping info from the (master) docs for earlier than VS2010. > >> > >> I didn't see any requests for support to build with earlier than 2010, > >> although Guy did wonder about the doc changes, but no real conclusion > was > >> reached. > >> > >> Personally I would make 2013 the minimum supported for master. > > Hmm, OK. So we need an updated developer's guide setup section. I will > try > > to update my Windows vom 2010 to 2013 and see how it goes - just have to > > find out how to snapshot the VM first ;-> > > Could you update Makefile.nmake and config.nmake to rip out all the > > stuff that deals with older versions? That would make my life with the > > CMake work on Windows somewhat easier ;-) > > > > Thanks > > Jörg > Could not we keep at least VS2010 but change the default to VS2013 (if > everybody agree)? I find it a quite drastic change to drop all older > compilers suddenly... This is not something we have done in the past. > > That was what I was meaning, we would leave support for VS2010, and fix up whatever is needed for 2012 & 2013. 2013 builds well for me. The toolchain in 2013 is a big improvement over 2010. I think we can make nmake autodetect the version and possibly CMake too, although that likes to make it's own mind up so needs a command line switch if you have multiple versions. -- Graham Bloice
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