Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013

Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:46:31PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> Looking at the published lifecycle info, 2017 is the oldest still in
>> 'mainstream' support[4], so it wouldn't be too crazy to drop VS 2015
>> too, just like those other projects. That said, it sounds like there
>> is no practical benefit to being more aggressive than you are
>> suggesting currently (as in, we wouldn't get to delete any more crufty
>> untestable dead code by dropping 2015, right?), so maybe that'd be
>> enough for now.

> FWIW, one of my environments is using VS2015, because I have set it up
> years ago and I am lazy to do this setup except if I really have to :)

> The code works as far as I know, still I am not really excited about
> cutting support for more versions than necessary, particularly as this
> does not simplify the C code more.

The argument about removing untested code doesn't apply if there is
no code to remove, so it seems like continuing to support VS2015 is
reasonable. Of course, if anyone came and complained that it's broken,
we'd probably just drop the support claim ...

regards, tom lane