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

[Sean McBride]

On 4/17/09 11:19 AM, David Thompson said:

>> What sort of maintenance issues are you having?
>This type:
>http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Common/
>vtkUnicodeString.cxx?view=log
>There are *many* more examples

My 2¢: time and developer energy are finite.  So while supporting an 11
year old toolchain may be nice, what will we have to trade off?  It's
2009 and VTK cannot display Unicode strings! (not even accented Latin
characters, let alone Asian languages).  Although I have not been
following vtkUnicodeString's development, it's clear that the authors
are spending time on VS6 issues instead of 'real work'.  That's a real
shame IMNSHO.  I vote for dumping anything that is a) so very old and b)
hindering forward progress.

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