[CMake] MSVC 2010

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 18/01/11 18:07, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Dienstag 18 Januar 2011, 19:02:15 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
>> Am Dienstag 18 Januar 2011, 18:05:50 schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
>>> On 18/01/11 16:15, David Cole wrote:
>>>> Your confusion is that you are looking for a "2010" -- there isn't one
>>>> -- there is "Visual Studio 10"
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> This is indeed a mess in CMake.
>>> There is no such product as Visual Studio 10.
>>> Also, there is no Microsoft product named "Visual Studio .NET 2005".
>>
>> 10.4 million google hits, some on microsoft.com (although I wouldn't take
>> that page as proper history indication), tell something different.

We must be using different Google then.

There are
Visual Studio .NET 2002
Visual Studio .NET 2003
and
Visual Studio 2005
but not Visual Studio .NET 2005

Microsoft officially dropped the.NET with Visual Studio 2005.

> I don' think all those authors invented the same name by accident.
>
> What I meant to say: the .NET in the name is not important, being it the
> official product name or not. 7/8/9/10 or [.NET] 2003/2005/2008/2010, who cares.

I do. Users who get confused, they also care, but perhaps indirectly.
Imprecise and misinforming documentation is a mess and there is no 
"after all" at all.

What to attach any philosophy to misuse of names for?

It is simpler to fix it than debating if it's pointless or not.

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