[ARROW-14070] [C++][CI] Remove support for VisualStudio 2015

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++, Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29666
• Assignee: Ben Kietzman
• Reporter: Ben Kietzman
• Created: 22/Sep/21 14:42
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:37
• Resolved: 29/Sep/21 11:30

Description

MSVC 19.0 is buggy enough that I for one have spent multiple days
reworking code that is fine for all other compilers we test against.
Most recently in the context of https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10793
(ARROW-13482) I found that for some types T,
`std::is_convertible<T, T>::value` will be false. This necessitated the
following
(very hacky) workaround:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10793/commits/c44be29686af6fab2132097aa3cbd430d6ac71fe

See mailing list discussion here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff3d8e837aee2964b49733b39a34cffef7c5438dbf2e5c929e878fdf%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11211