Re: Oldest version of VS supported?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 24 July 2014 19:03, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com> wrote:

> Le 24 juil. 2014 20:00, "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice () trihedral com> a
> écrit :
>
> > On 24 July 2014 18:51, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () 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 <jmayer () 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.
>
> Which make me think that I must upload the MSVC2013 Lua package :)
The current one builds and runs fine with VS2013, but I don't think I've
tried any Lua scripts with it.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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