Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> I would like to revive this topic. As of now Windows build for OpenJDK6
> is broken as of b31. Making it to build with VS2003 would be effectively
> repeating in some sense the effort that Oracle is doing for the
> closed-source jdk6 updates. I do not think that neither RedHat nor Azul
> nor anyone else in the community has the cycles to do this work for
> OpenJDK6.
> I am proposing to adopt for openjdk6 what we already do now for Zulu:
> ditch VS2003 and adopt VS2010. Someone at Azul can prepare the patch for
> this change.
> Now it is up to the maintenance lead to decide what we do here for windows.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ivan
> 

How easily can people using VS2003 change to VS2010? Is it just a matter of
downloading a new package?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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