timsky wrote on Mon, 21 September 2015 16:09

mirek wrote on Sun, 23 August 2015 11:18

I would like to make another release this year.

- mingw-w64 should come with it (to create better out-of-box experience)

Will you add MinGW to nightly builds too? Probably MinGW will significantly increase installer size. Right now it is great that U++ is so small and there is no need to wait for hours donloading it on slow connections.

Yes. I think mingw will add about 30MB to the download. I do not think it is a problem. But I can be persuaded to have "mingw-free" version...

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mirek wrote on Sun, 23 August 2015 11:18

- To simplify things, I am considering to remove some toolchains from Win32 auto-setup. Ideally, only VS2015 and SDK7 (which is the only SDK still coming with C++ compiler) should be supported. Detection method should also be changed to rather scan directories than read from registry.

Are you going to remove build methods for VS 2005 - 2013?
Please do not do that

I am not going to remove build methods, just automatic setup. Or, as things are developing, "portable setup" (it looks like there will be no install, theide will reconfigure upon starting).

OTOH, at some point in the future, C++11 will likely lure us to require C++11 compiler. At that point, U++ will not be able to compile with pre VS2015 MS compilers...

Mirek