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http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-May/025838.html
'''UPDATE: VS6 will be dropped for ITKv4.'''
= Real world issues =
Visual Studio 6 is the most recurrent compiler insight-developers have to cope with:
* http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2006-February/016823.html
* http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/12/32632.php
* http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2009-April/012094.html
* http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2009-April/012180.html
* http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2009-February/011850.html
* http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2008-September/011087.html
* http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2009-April/100478.html


= Motivation =
= Motivation =
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== In Favor of Dropping Support ==
== In Favor of Dropping Support ==


* user1
* Hans Johnson: My vote has stayed the same for many years now.  I think that the need to support partial specialization is critical for future of ITK.  Dropping support for VS6 will allow us to move the toolkit forward.
* user2
* Alex. Gouaillard
* user3
* Gert Wollny (I filed the bug report)
* Brian Gee Chacko
* Mathieu Malaterre: ITK community should focus on writing algorithm, and not on supporting broken compiler (VS7.1, VS 2005 & VS 2008 are even free of charge).
* Tom Vercauteren
* Rashindra Manniesing
* David Witten
* Marcel Koek
* Marius Staring
* Stefan Klein
* Dženan Zukić


== In Favor of Maintaining Support ==
== Against Dropping Support ==


* user4
* Bill Lorensen: Partial specialization can be implemented in Visual Studio 6; see [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/Common/itkImageTransformHelper.h?root=Insight&view=log itkImageTransformHelper.h]
* user5
** Comment (Gert Wollny): No, the example shows ''function (template) overloading'' and not ''partial template specialization'' - compare e.g. [http://www.amazon.com/C%2B%2B-Templates-Complete-David-Vandevoorde/dp/0201734842/ D. Vandevoorde and  N. M. Josuttis "C++ Templates"] pp.179-204.
* user6

Latest revision as of 12:34, 8 July 2010


It has been suggested that ITK should drop support of the Visual Studio 6.0 compiler.

http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-May/025838.html

UPDATE: VS6 will be dropped for ITKv4.

Real world issues

Visual Studio 6 is the most recurrent compiler insight-developers have to cope with:

Motivation

  • Lack of support for template partial specialization
  • The compiler is about 10 years old
  • It is out the market (Microsoft doesn't sell it anymore)

User's Opinions

Please add your opinions here:

In Favor of Dropping Support

  • Hans Johnson: My vote has stayed the same for many years now. I think that the need to support partial specialization is critical for future of ITK. Dropping support for VS6 will allow us to move the toolkit forward.
  • Alex. Gouaillard
  • Gert Wollny (I filed the bug report)
  • Brian Gee Chacko
  • Mathieu Malaterre: ITK community should focus on writing algorithm, and not on supporting broken compiler (VS7.1, VS 2005 & VS 2008 are even free of charge).
  • Tom Vercauteren
  • Rashindra Manniesing
  • David Witten
  • Marcel Koek
  • Marius Staring
  • Stefan Klein
  • Dženan Zukić

Against Dropping Support

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