Message160734
| Author |
loewis |
| Recipients |
brian.curtin, loewis, pitrou |
| Date |
2012年05月15日.15:04:22 |
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-1.0 |
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Yes |
| Message-id |
<20120515170421.Horde.M2M_M9jz9kRPsnB1sjdgzLA@webmail.df.eu> |
| In-reply-to |
<1337081562.3406.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> |
| Content |
> Well, VS 2010 is probably a multi-GB download and install. Besides,
> having to juggle between two different VS versions will quickly become
> confusing.
Sure. However, it is not feasible to keep the build systems for many
VS versions up-to-date, just because contributors are shy of installing
the current version. Tracking two build systems (autoconf and VS) is
already difficult enough.
> Speaking as a non-native Windows developer, there are enough hoops I
> must jump through to do occasional testing under a Windows VM. So I
> might simply stop caring.
This is free software. If you don't want to care, you don't have to.
It's the same as switching from Subversion to Mercurial: we probably
lost some contributors who never bothered to learn Mercurial. That
didn't stop us from switching. I expect that most occasional contributors
will find it easier to use VS 2010 than VS 2008. |
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