[Insight-developers] Visual Studio 6.0

[Bill Lorensen]

Karthik,

I don't agree that a significant digit increase justifies significant
changes to the toolkit. Any API (or compiler support) changes should always
be scrutinized. ITK only will reach 4.0 because we decided a while back that
x.10 releases would be confusing to users. We are forced to 4.0 after
3.8because of this policy.

Bill

On Dec 10, 2007 4:02 PM, Karthik Krishnan <karthik.krishnan at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Its probably reasonable to query the user's list to see if there are a
> significant number of users (probably very few considering that VS9 is
> scheduled for a release in 2008).
>
> That said. I agree with Luis that Version 4.0 is a good time to drop
> support for VS9. An significant digit increase in version number reflects a
> significant change in the toolkit. Or, if you drop support at the next
> release, increment the version number to 4.0.
>
> --
> karthik
>
>
> On 12/10/07, 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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> > --
> > Gaëtan Lehmann
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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