[pdal] MSVC 2015+

[Murphy, Todd]

I would like to upgrade to VS 2015 however it comes with understandable challenges as Brad points out. I have found it much easier to build PDAL on Linux so I could complete my taskings.  I was looking to support it on Windows, but instead went with running Linux virtual machines to support a project we worked. We have installed the OsGeo4W64 when it became available on some of our processors Windows boxes. I do not have an urgent need or requirement to switch.

Thanks,

Todd Murphy

From: pdal [mailto:pdal-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bradley Chambers
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:56 AM
To: Howard Butler; pdal
Subject: Re: [pdal] MSVC 2015+

Howard,

I'm not going to stand in the way if the consensus is to require VS 2015. I do wonder if it is completely necessary though.

I'm curious how many of the recent round of fixes were VS 2012 specific, and how many were simply because we weren't running the tests on Appveyor. I thought that most of the VS 2012 limitations were fairly well known, if a bit of a nuisance. We knew initializer lists were out, and that there were a few range-based loop gotchas.

Is there anything requiring us to dump VS 2012 (e.g., Appveyor dropping support)?

Also keep in mind government users. I don't know where things stand, but there can be a significant lag in approved versions of MSVC.

I can make the switch when the time comes. I'm just on my Windows machine so infrequently, that I kind of don't look forward to upgrading PDAL and all of it's dependencies. It would be nice to just pull master and be off and running.

Hopefully some other Windows users will chime in.

Brad

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:08 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co<mailto:howard at hobu.co>> wrote:
All,

At the OSGeo Paris Sprint, we have been discussing the Windows build situation for PDAL, and I'd like to gauge the interest in maintaining any Windows compilers less than 2015. AppVeyor supports 2015, and the proposal is we would default to building and running the tests with that platform. Though this might mostly be for Brad, I'd like everyone to have an opportunity to let us know which Windows compilers need to be supported by the PDAL team. No PDAL dev is really a full-time Windows developer at this time, but we would commit to keeping AppVeyor happy.

In short, here's your chance to stand up and say you need an older MSVC compiler supported, and if so, step forward to volunteer to do so :)

Howard
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