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Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:22 +0100
On 20 May 2013 17:54, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
On 5/20/13 8:37 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:This is the small end of a long and wriggly worm. Windows builds can consume system libraries from two sources, the Compiler\VS Studio installation and the Platform SDK. Merely checking the compiler version isn't necessarily the correct option as the build may be using a much newer version of the SDK that doesn't have the issue. In addition the build may be targeted at version of Windows that doesn't suffer the issue. I would like to have the time to sort thisout. Would reducing the number of supported compilers in config.nmake help in that regard?
It would be a start.
In general though, I agree that for Windows, supporting old compilers isn't really necessary as Visual Studio will generally install on older OS's, excepting that VS2012 limits support to Win7 and later, so we might need to support VS2010 for XP and Vista, although even XP dies (from mainstream support) in Apr 2014.I'm OK with removing VS 2005 and .Net Framework 2.0.
Personally I'd cut VS 2008 off as well. Supporting the current and previous version should be OK, especially as VS isn't distributed as part of the OS so isn't tied to it and the Express editions are just a download away, and all versions can co-exist happily on the same machine I think (definitely true for VS2005 & 2012, so probably true for other versions). Graham
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- Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Alexis La Goutte (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Evan Huus (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Gerald Combs (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Graham Bloice (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Gerald Combs (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Graham Bloice (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Gerald Combs (May 20)
- Re: Kept support of Visual Studio 2005 Evan Huus (May 20)