[Bf-committers] Is MSVC2008 still to be supported?

Jambay Jambay at cox.net
Sat Jun 20 18:35:16 CEST 2015


k, like I said, my stuff is out of date was thinking 2010 was min but you 
are correct, wasn't well done.

if 2013 is base, I'm fine with that, thx for reply/info.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey" <italic.rendezvous at gmail.com>
To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Is MSVC2008 still to be supported?


> From what I recall of that time period, MSVC 2010 was dropped because
> support was never fully developed. Development favored 2013. Now that
> we've got 2013 established, I see no reason to go backwards. I don't
> remember if there were particular advantages in 2010 versus 2008.
>
> On 06/20/2015 09:18 AM, Jambay wrote:
>> not to stir things up but would think MSVC 2010 is still valid; older
>> versions, agreed.
>>
>> But then I'm out of date on a lot of source for my system. If it goes 
>> away
>> won't affect me until I get into builds.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martijn Berger" <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
>> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 5:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Is MSVC2008 still to be supported?
>>
>>
>>> Hi Campbell,
>>>
>>> I think some people actually started cleaning up work-arounds for 
>>> ancient
>>> MSVC 's not sure if 2008 still builds.
>>> I think of all pre 2012 versions as ancient and to broken to want to
>>> support. Whole reason for doing MSVC 2013 work was to move up the lowest
>>> common denominator for everyone.
>>>
>>> I would like to propose officially abandoning 2005, 2008, 2010 versions 
>>> of
>>> MSVC.
>>>
>>> Martijn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I was under the impression MSVC2008 was dropped (committed removal
>>>> of some MSVC version checks).
>>>> But looks like there wasn't official decision here?
>>>>
>>>> Is the intention to keep supporting MSVC2008?
>>>> Is anyone using it for development?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> - Campbell
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