Hi David,
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:38 PM, David Bolen <db3l.net@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting - I probably would have assumed removing 2010 was safe for 2.7 as well. However, all of my 2.7 builders (XP/7/8/10) currently have both 2008 and 2010 so any dependency on 2010 would go unnoticed.
Assuming the 2010 dependency is unintentional, or we specifically want to test without it, the XP slave no longer builds anything but 2.7, so I could actually uninstall 2010 from that machine without affecting any other builders, or requiring any special configuration to avoid a 2010 installation.
The dependency on both 2008 and 2010 is intentional for the build files in PCbuild/. The reason is that I backported the new build files from 3.5 to allow for easier ICC support (and a few other minor benefits), but to make that work we need the compiler toolchain from 2008 and the v90 PlatformToolset files from 2010 to use with an MSBuild from 2010 or later. PC/VS9.0 is completely independent, though, and has no reliance on VS 2010.
I'd like to just add a builder to your XP bot that builds in PC/VS9.0 in addition to the regular builder in PCbuild. That will allow us to keep track of whether a change breaks one build or both. Once I have a VS9-only builder set up, if you want to remove VS2010 from any of your other bots, let me know and I'll switch its 2.7 builder to use VS9-only.
-- Zach