[Insight-developers] Visual Studio 6.0

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Hi Bill,

My main concern with vs6 is the lack of partial specialization  
support (maybe other compilers don't have that feature by the way).
I guess that, at the beginning of ITK development, vs6 was a very  
important compiler to support, so the developers must have found some  
workarounds to be able to use it. But now, is it still important to  
support that compiler?

After some time, it seem to be a good idea to re-evaluate what  
features we want to have, and compilers we want to support, and found  
a compromise between those two points.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that, or to plan that re-evaluation?

Regards,

Gaëtan



Le 10 déc. 07 à 22:09, Bill Lorensen a écrit :

> 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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> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
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Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr




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