llvm dev - Nov 2013 - [LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

>> So, by dropping support for VS 2010, you will be making any developer
>> who uses Windows XP - potentially a large number of developers given
>> Windows XP's still huge market share - unable to build clang.
>
> We could create some special bonware that installs 7 on any XP machine
> it encounters. Volunteers?
Not everyone thinks that such a thing would be bonware [1].
 
Regards,
Nate
 
[1] http://en.windows7sins.org/

I'd gladly install Linux on them, not windows 7. :-)

Cheers,
Renato
On 9 Nov 2013 03:34, "Nathan Ridge" <zeratul976 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> >> So, by dropping support for VS 2010, you will be making any
developer
> >> who uses Windows XP - potentially a large number of developers
given
> >> Windows XP's still huge market share - unable to build clang.
> >
> > We could create some special bonware that installs 7 on any XP machine
> > it encounters. Volunteers?
>
> Not everyone thinks that such a thing would be bonware [1].
>
> Regards,
> Nate
>
> [1] http://en.windows7sins.org/
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