[vtkusers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi Liang,

  Could you please explain in a couple of words why are you sticking
with VS6 ? What makes it impossible for you to use VS7.1 and above ?

Thanks,

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Liang Ma <leo at esit.com> wrote:
> 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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Mathieu