[Insight-developers] Fwd: [vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Tom Vercauteren]

Thanks for the information Karthik.

It seems that people at VXL are also rethinking their list of
supported compilers:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=D64CB8AC52B5EE4EAB7E657E17BB022509C29D7D%40CINMLVEM24.e2k.ad.ge.com

To quote the consensus they seemed to reach:

On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Wheeler, Frederick W (GE, Research) wrote:
> I suggest 1. we ensure vnl, vnl_algo, vcl, netlib compile on borland, 2.
> we don't worry about borland for any other libraries,  3. other
> libraries that happen to compile on borland will be included in the
> dashboard build, but dropped if they start having persistent borland
> compiler problems.

Regards,
Tom

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 19:52, Karthik Krishnan
<karthik.krishnan at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM
> Subject: [vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?
> To: VTK Users <vtkusers at vtk.org>, VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We are thinking of dropping support for Visual Studio 6. It is causing
> annoying maintenance issues since no one in the developer team uses it
> and since VS 6 supports only a subset of modern C++ features. Are
> there any objects? If yes, I would like to know why.
>
> Best,
> -berk
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