[8] Review request for 8001764: vsvars.sh should support VS2012

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:

> Tim, Kelly: thanks for your review. I'll push the fix via the awt forest tomorrow.

Great. Thanks for making the change.

-kto

> 
> On 10/29/2012 8:29 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
>>> We're not yet switching JDK builds to VS2012. However, the vsvars.sh script is useful for other applications in order to set up the build environment, so I think the proposed changes should be useful. Once we start using VS2012 (or VS2014, or whatever it will be) for JDK, the vsvars.sh will already support that.
>> Changing compilers needs to come down from the release team.  I hope you realize that.  If they do not make a decision soon, VS2012 or later will wait until JDK9.
> 
> That's correct. Currently we don't have any plans to change compilers for JDK 8. It will be discussed with the release team when need arises.
> 
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> best regards,
> Anthony