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> 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? Tim.

>> 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/

>> It is special, sadly, and I'm not talking about C++11 support only, but >> about the policies MS follows which too often makes very inconvenient >> (or even impossible) to upgrade to newer VS versions. The latest example >> that comes to mind was the release of VS2012: they removed Windows XP >> support, as if upgrading the OS is a non-issue if you ask for it

...e: > >> 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/ > _______________________________________________ > cfe-dev mailing list > cfe...

> Not everyone thinks that such a thing would be bonware [1]. > Regards, > Nate > [1] http://en.windows7sins.org/ Probably shouldn't feed this any more, but.. I work primarily with Visual Studio and LLVM myself and have absolutely no objection to dropping VS2010. In fact, I stronly support such a move, as the VC++ compiler has improved...