[edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support

[edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support

[Oliver Smith-Denny]

Hi Rebecca,

Per Liming's request I am moving this discussion to the mailing list.
Now that VS2022 support has been added to edk2, can we drop VS2015
support (honestly VS2017 could be dropped, too). This is an almost
10 year old toolchain that is unsupported, has many quirks, and will
continue to require odd changes from new code to support it, for no
gain. VS2015 (and 2017) users should move to VS2022.

Thanks,
Oliver


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Re: [edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support

[Michael D Kinney]

What do you mean by drop?

Remove from CI or remove from both CI and tools_def.txt?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Oliver Smith-
> Denny
> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:48 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Rebecca Cran <rebecca@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> Per Liming's request I am moving this discussion to the mailing list.
> Now that VS2022 support has been added to edk2, can we drop VS2015
> support (honestly VS2017 could be dropped, too). This is an almost
> 10 year old toolchain that is unsupported, has many quirks, and will
> continue to require odd changes from new code to support it, for no
> gain. VS2015 (and 2017) users should move to VS2022.
> 
> Thanks,
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
> 



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Re: [edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support

[Rebecca Cran]

On 7/9/24 14:01, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> What do you mean by drop?
> 
> Remove from CI or remove from both CI and tools_def.txt?

I'm thinking remove it from both.

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Rebecca Cran

> 
> Mike
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Oliver Smith-
>> Denny
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:48 PM
>> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Rebecca Cran <rebecca@os.amperecomputing.com>
>> Subject: [edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support
>>
>> Hi Rebecca,
>>
>> Per Liming's request I am moving this discussion to the mailing list.
>> Now that VS2022 support has been added to edk2, can we drop VS2015
>> support (honestly VS2017 could be dropped, too). This is an almost
>> 10 year old toolchain that is unsupported, has many quirks, and will
>> continue to require odd changes from new code to support it, for no
>> gain. VS2015 (and 2017) users should move to VS2022.



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Re: [edk2-devel] Drop VS2015 Support

[Oliver Smith-Denny]

On 7/9/2024 2:44 PM, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 7/9/24 14:01, Michael D Kinney wrote:
>> What do you mean by drop?
>>
>> Remove from CI or remove from both CI and tools_def.txt?
> 
> I'm thinking remove it from both.
> 

Yeah, I mean remove from both. It is an additional maintenance
burden and is very old at this point.

Thanks,
Oliver


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