Proposals:Dropping Support for Visual Studio 6.0

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

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)
• user3
• Brian Gee Chacko

Against Dropping Support

• Bill Lorensen

Partial specialization can be implemented in Visual Studio 6; see itkImageTransformHelper.h

• user5
• user6