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

[Francois Bertel]

Berk,

Just to be sure: you really mean 7.0, right? Not 7.1 which is .NET 2003?



On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bill Lorensen<bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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