[vtk-developers] Can we drop support for Visual Studio 7.0 and Borland 5.6?

[Berk Geveci]

Yes. I apologize for not being clear on that. I meant only 7.0 not 7.1
(.NET 2003). We have no plans to drop support for 7.1.

-berk

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Francois
Bertel<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> Berk,
>
> Just to be sure: you really mean 7.0, right? Not 7.1 which is .NET 2003?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bill Lorensen<bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My VS compiler is VS7. I use Slicer3 which sort of supports VS7.
>> Borland 5.8 is not an option since I do not believe that itk will
>> compile with it. Maybe a free Visual Studio version is my best option.
>> I'll investigate.
>>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Berk Geveci<berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> We are thinking of dropping support for Visual Studio 7 and Borland
>>> 5.6 (and older).
>>> They are causing annoying maintenance issues since no one in the developer team
>>> uses  them and since they support only a subset of modern C++ features. I am
>>> looking for answers to the following questions:
>>>
>>> * Do you need VTK working with VS 7.0 or Borland 5.6?
>>> * Why can't you migrate to another compiler, such as Visual Studio 9
>>> or Borland 5.8?
>>>
>>> My understanding is that VS 7.0 has only minor improvements over VS 6 (mainly
>>> the addition of the .NET framework but not to the C++ compiler) and
>>> most people skipped
>>> it when upgrading from VS 6. Borland 5.6 is very old and is no longer
>>> supported. Please
>>> let us know if you have any valid reasons why you are stuck with one
>>> of these compilers.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -berk
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