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

[Bill Lorensen]

Which tests...

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Thompson <dcthomp at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Adding a continuous build that has wrapping turned on seems an easy fix
> that doesn't require MSVC6.
>
>> 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.
>
> There is more than just compiling cleanly. We have had many problems
> where code compiles but tests run incorrectly (and, yes, only on VC6
> builds).
>
>        David
>
>> (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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