On Mo, 16 Apr 2018, Mike Williams wrote: > My experience with a transition period moving to Visual Studio 2015 from > earlier versions is that the biggest issue is allowing variable declarations > to be declared anywhere within a block - it is very easy to do. If anyone > is still using older versions this could become a regular bump in the > development road like not casting the result of STRLEN() to an int where > needed. > > Designated initializers and very large arrays are concious changes in > developer habits so will be less likely if they are to be precluded for > backward MSVC support. > > Perhaps the release of 8.2/9.0 could be a red flag event to only support > VS2015 and later. > > My 2ps worth to the debate.
Perhaps we should include a certain test within the current code base to see if someone complains. I know the git developers included such a test balloon some time ago: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170710070342.txmlwwq6gvjkw...@sigill.intra.peff.net/ We could use something similar to get an indication, what can be used without hassle. Best, Christian -- Lieber zweifelhaft als pinselhaft. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
