[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Bill Lorensen]

Berk,

What sort of maintenance issues are you having?

Are there other compilers the developers don't use? Visual Studio 7? Borland?

I think the real issue is what compilers do the VTK installed base
use? You may have customers that are using 3rd party drivers/libraries
that are VS6. Actually, there is no way to know who the customers are.

Bill

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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