[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Can we drop support for Visual Studio 7.0 and Borland 5.6?

[Bill Lorensen]

My VS compiler is VS7. I use Slicer3 which sort of supports VS7.
Borland 5.8 is not an option since I do not believe that itk will
compile with it. Maybe a free Visual Studio version is my best option.
I'll investigate.


Bill

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Berk Geveci<berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We are thinking of dropping support for Visual Studio 7 and Borland
> 5.6 (and older).
> They are causing annoying maintenance issues since no one in the developer team
> uses  them and since they support only a subset of modern C++ features. I am
> looking for answers to the following questions:
>
> * Do you need VTK working with VS 7.0 or Borland 5.6?
> * Why can't you migrate to another compiler, such as Visual Studio 9
> or Borland 5.8?
>
> My understanding is that VS 7.0 has only minor improvements over VS 6 (mainly
> the addition of the .NET framework but not to the C++ compiler) and
> most people skipped
> it when upgrading from VS 6. Borland 5.6 is very old and is no longer
> supported. Please
> let us know if you have any valid reasons why you are stuck with one
> of these compilers.
>
> Best,
> -berk
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