From what I recall of that time period, MSVC 2010 was dropped because support was never fully developed. Development favored 2013. Now that we've got 2013 established, I see no reason to go backwards. I don't remember if there were particular advantages in 2010 versus 2008.
On 06/20/2015 09:18 AM, Jambay wrote: > not to stir things up but would think MSVC 2010 is still valid; older > versions, agreed. > > But then I'm out of date on a lot of source for my system. If it goes away > won't affect me until I get into builds. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martijn Berger" <[email protected]> > To: "bf-blender developers" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 5:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Is MSVC2008 still to be supported? > > >> Hi Campbell, >> >> I think some people actually started cleaning up work-arounds for ancient >> MSVC 's not sure if 2008 still builds. >> I think of all pre 2012 versions as ancient and to broken to want to >> support. Whole reason for doing MSVC 2013 work was to move up the lowest >> common denominator for everyone. >> >> I would like to propose officially abandoning 2005, 2008, 2010 versions of >> MSVC. >> >> Martijn >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I was under the impression MSVC2008 was dropped (committed removal >>> of some MSVC version checks). >>> But looks like there wasn't official decision here? >>> >>> Is the intention to keep supporting MSVC2008? >>> Is anyone using it for development? >>> >>> -- >>> - Campbell >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- Jeffrey "Italic_" Hoover _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
