I have no skin in the game, so I'm OK for dropping MSVC 2015 going forward... for what that's worth (nothing). P
> On Nov 16, 2022, at 4:44 PM, Regina Obe <l...@pcorp.us> wrote: > > I vote for drop for GEOS 3.12+ > I guess technically we can’t drop for 3.11 and below since those would be > considered breaking changes. > > I personally don’t have an interest in MSVC in general and I only have MSVC > 2019 installed if I cared to use MSVC for anything. So dropping MSVC2015 is > fine with me. > > FWIW MS changed their policy of visual studio redistributable, so the latest > redistributable covers 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 > > So dropping the MSVC2015 I see only as an inconvenience to developers who for > whatever reason choose to stick with 2015, of those they probably don’t need > to run newer GEOS either. MSVC2015 main support ended 2 years ago and is now > on extended life support. > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/visual-studio-2015 > > Thanks, > Regina > > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Daniel Baston > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 7:19 PM > To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org> > Subject: [geos-devel] GEOS support for Visual Studio 2015 > > Hi, > > Not for the first time, I've been testing some code changes that work in all > of our CI environments except for Visual Studio 2015. We recently removed > support for gcc 4.8 and I'm wondering if we should consider removing support > for MSVC 2015 in the same release. Like gcc 4.8, MSVC 2015 lacks 100% C++11 > support. It also requires us to maintain an AppVeyor CI setup solely for this > compiler. Is there any particular interest in this compiler, or can we remove > it and save some effort implementing workarounds? > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
