[Bf-committers] VS 2013 + Blender = ???

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hi there,

Out of curiosity I downloaded the VS 2013 Pro preview yesterday.
And while playing with it I had the idea to try blender compilation with it ;)
I needed to tweak the sources a bit because MSVC 12 seems to break se things as M$ implements more C++11 features. It took me 30 Minutes to put a patch together.
But all the libs I compiled with VC11 need to be recompiled :(
So I stopped this insanity ...

But what I am curious about, what do you guys think?
Shall we adapt new versions if MSVC early (even if we don't use it for production) or not?
Pro: when we decide to switch to another version (let's assume MSVC 2016, just for an example) the workload of porting might be huge.
Con: we have to recompile libs and port blender every year (in case MS keeps this release schedule)

/Jürgen