Re: Support new and discontinue old compilers

I will check the issue with Firebird

http://paste.openstack.org/show/594333/

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:26 AM, David Ostrovsky <d.ostrovsky@gmx.de>
wrote:

> I'm pleased to share with you, that MSVC 15 (aka VS 2017) is up
> and running on master: [1].
>
> After fixing the VC++ runtime merge module merging problem in resulted
> MSI in MSVC 14.0 and MSVC 15.0, the produced MSI can not only be
> installed, but the LO can actually run after the installation. The VC++
> Runtime merge module merging bug that started to show up since MSVC
> 14.0, is appeared to be a trivial problem, that was surprisingly hard
> to track down: [2]. I don't want to enter into glory details here as
> for why that was the case, but I will write a blog about that one.
>
> That raises the question, if we are ready to move forward and left MSVC
> 12.0 (aka VS 2013) behind us: [3]. I know, it's always hard to get a
> feedback on such questions, as you can see no reaction on this infra
> issue: [4]. Needless to say that I asked on IRC too, without any
> response, so I guess the only way to get a feedback on that one, is to
> merge that change and see, if it's going to be reverted...
>
> * [1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/31279
> * [2] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/33366/
> * [3] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/22588/
> * [4] https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/2147
>
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