[Bf-committers] Promoting MSVC 2015 builds as official

[Ray Molenkamp]

Sounds good to me!

--Ray



On 12/2/2016 6:21, Sergey Sharybin wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> We've got MSVC 2015 libraries and buildbot for quite some time now. While
> there are some compilation errors time to time on buildbot, they don't seem
> to be MSVC 2015 specific at all.
>
> Is there any reason NOT to make MSVC 2015 a default one for Blender? This
> will include:
>
> - Removing MSVC 2013 builders from buildbot. As a benefit users wouldn't be
> confused whether they should go with 2013 or 2015 builds.
> - Moving focus to MSVC 2015 libraries, which will save us time form
> maintaining and testing MSVC 2013 libraries.
> - If nobody from community steps up for the 2013 libraries maintenance
> those libraries will fade out naturally as it happened when we switched
> from 2008 to 2013.
>
> Any thoughts?
>