Re: [edk2-devel] tool chain tag setting for vs2017

["Pete Batard" <pete@akeo.ie>]

On 2019.05.08 13:16, xulin wrote:
> Got it. BTW, do you have plan to support for higher version GCC? Such as 
> GCC8?

Well, I am not speaking for the project as a whole, but past experience 
seems to indicate that support for newer toolchain is added by 
contributors (which, really, can be anyone) on an ad hoc basis, when the 
need is identified and/or a new toolchain becomes popular, as well as 
*if* the definitions from the current toolchain (such as GCC5) do not 
work well enough to support the later versions.

So I don't think there are official plans with regards to adding such an 
such toolchain (such as GCC8 or VS2019) apart from waiting for 
contributors, who might have a vested interest in those, to provide 
patches where needed. For most Open Source projects, this usually happen 
organically, without any specific timeline, as each toolchain becomes 
more widespread.

Regards,

/Pete