[vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Francois Bertel]

I also have an argument for keeping VS60 support:

Usually, developers break VS60 because it is on the continuous
dashboard and it has tcl and python wrapper turned on. Sometimes the
BCC on the
continuous does not gives error because it does not have tcl and
python wrappers on but nightly builds of BCC are then usually broken.
Same for SunOS CC.

Besides the big red dahsboard few weeks ago with the unicode features,
there is no VS60 specific break. The last few days dashboard errors
were on most platforms.
(I make this remark is just in case Berk started ask the question
because of the current VTK dashboard state).


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Francois Bertel
<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> An argument in favor of stopping VS6 support:
>
> Even Microsoft stopped to support it officially. Microsoft stopped
> "mainstream support" on 9/30/2004 and "extended support" on
> 9/30/2005.
> ref: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3003
>
>
> A little remark (not an argument): VS60 is the last version to run on
> the Windows 9x platform ( but who is still using Windows 9x in 2009
> anyway?):
> ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#Visual_Studio_6.0
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> 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
>>
>> 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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