>A recent question on Ask Wireshark [1] brought up the issue of which version of Visual Studio we should be targeting with releases.
>Part of the issue is all the 3rd party libs that may be linked with a specific version of the MSVC run-time DLL.
>It has been suggested that we move to VS2012, is there a QT for 2012? Maybe even go to 2013. I would like us to use the most recent (as long as it's been out for 3
>months or so) version of VS for a new release, is this practical?
>Apart from dev's own VS environments there are the buildbots to consider.
I couldn’t install Visual studio 2013 on my work computer as it complained Explorer was too old, unfortunately I can’t upgrade Explorer so I’d vote for 2012
J
As at this point it’s only LUA(?) giving problems we could support at least two LUA versions, the dll’s are available.
Otherwise in principle I agree with Graham to use the latest version.
>I also read somewhere else that MS will supply VS licences for open source projects, do you know anything about that Gerald?
