Visual Studio users: We are raising the compiler floor to Visual Studio 2010

[Corey Kosak]

Hello Visual Studio users,

We recently raised our Visual Studio compiler floor to Visual Studio 2010. What happened internally is that we changed the configuration of our build/test system so that it builds and tests Googletest/Googlemock on Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013, but no longer on Visual Studio 2005. [note 1]

What this means for the opensource community is that we no longer intend to support VS 2005. If a future change passes all of our supported compilers but happens to break on VS 2005, we will not notice this and we are not likely to fix it.

The consequence to VS 2005 users is that the known-working version of gUnit/gMock will be frozen. (Of course such folks can always fork the repository themselves if they want more recent patches).

Please let us know if you object to this decision.

Note 1: The reason I didn't mention VS 2008 is that we were not testing on it before, but we consider it too old to start testing on it now. So we sort of "leapfrogged" it. We feel VS 2010 is a more appropriate floor than VS 2008, but if you strongly disagree, please let us know as well.

[David Wallace]

We are currently using VS 2008 for production (with gtest and gmock), so we are interested in having it supported for now.  We anticipate migrating to VS 2010 at some point in the probably not too distant future, so I don't know how long our need for 2008 support will continue (current status is that our code compiles ok under VS 2010, but there are some runtime issues we still need to debug).  We have already looked at, and rejected, an upgrade to VS 2012, because it does not compile Qt 4.8 cleanly, and we are not prepared to move to Qt 5 for our GUI.

So we currently have a mild preference for a VS 2008 floor that will either go away or become stronger depending on how our 2010 migration goes.

Dave Wallace

[Corey Kosak]

Hi David,

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I just want to stress (I suppose this goes without saying) that you always have the option to continue using the version of gUnit/gMock you are currently using, which is already working for you. Also, let's see if any other users weigh in on this issue.