Oliver Bolte wrote: > AFAIK you can't download VS 2005 Express anymore. > The build for the 64 bit shell extension will probably fail, > but I haven't used VS 2005 since years... > Ok, thanks for the update there - nah, I think the shell xt is properly guarded with BUILD_X64, at least I did not hit any problems.
So I finished a build with that compiler, with the boost upgrade being the most substantial change necessary. Given that we historically did not axe support for compilers "just because", but only for reasons like inordinate effort, or insufficient 3rd party lib support, I'd vote for putting it back in as a supported compiler. Then again, _personally_, I'd not be completely inconvenienced to solely use VS2008, it's just that there's a slightly different set of warnings, slightly better chance of detecting compatibility/idiomatic problems in win32-only code, and of course the thing with the moz build, that speaks for keeping it. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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