[vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Liang Ma]

I am still using VC++ 6.0 on Windows XP also. Please do not stop the 
support.

Leo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elvis Dowson" <elvis.dowson at mac.com>
To: "VTK Users" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?


> Hi,
> I still use VC++ 6.0 on Windows XP / Server 2003 for developing VTK 
> applications. It's light and simple, and I don't use any .NET features  or 
> capability. Further more, I only use the VC++ compiler as a back  end, to 
> a real-time UML based modeling/auto-code generation environment.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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