[Insight-developers] Visual Studio 6.0

[Bill Lorensen]

Gaetan,

Why drop it?  Is there something we cannot do now that is a required
enhancement to ITK? Granted, it is a bad compiler, but so far, we have been
able to work around its weaknesses.

I'm concerned that there may be customers out there that still depend on it.
Backporting to a VS6 branch is not a practical solution. I'm afraid that
this would be a bad precedent.

What compiler is next? Maybe Boralnd. It's a pain. How about the SGI
compilers? We have some tests that alsways seem to fail for SGI's. Does
anyone use SGI's anymore? SUNPro? Can't be many people interested in that
one. It's warnings are hard to suppress.

At a minimum, we should ask the ITK community about it. Maybe no one is
using VS6 with recent versions of ITK. Of course, how do we contact everyone
that uses ITK. It's open...

Regards,

Bill

On Dec 10, 2007 3:55 PM, Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Why are we waiting to remove the support for that compiler?
> Dropping the support for vs6 doesn't mean that people who are using
> vs6 won't be able to use ITK, only that they won't be able to use the
> newer version of ITK.
>
> Following that idea, and if there is no other constrain (like imposed
> compiler support, or a too huge number of users of vs6), another
> option is to drop vs6 support as soon as possible, and then backport
> bug fixes to the last branch to support vs6 for some time, so people
> can have enough time to switch to a newer compiler version.
>
> Would it be possible to proceed that way?
>
> Gaëtan
>
>
>
> Le 10 déc. 07 à 16:48, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
>
> >
> > One day... one day...     :-)
> >
> >
> > How about doing it as the celebration of ITK 4.0 ?
> >
> > That will be September 2008.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Luis
> >
> >
> > -------------------------
> > Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >> On Dec 10, 2007 2:16 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> >>> Just for the record:
> >>>
> >>> In the past couple of days we were experimenting with
> >>> factorizing all the NumericTraits of the VariableLengthVector
> >>> by using a single template.
> >>>
> >>> The basic idea is that:
> >>>
> >>>  NumericTraits< Vector< T > > = Vector < NumericTraits< T > >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The replacement template worked fine in most compilers,
> >>> except the beloved and magnificent Visual Studio 6.0.   :-/
> >> Are we ever going to get rid of that fake compiler that's only
> >> good at
> >> wasting people time ?
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