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

[Dean Inglis]

Hi

I was using the Borland products a while ago but gave up
as of C++ Builder 2006 due to a whole mess of build issues with
ITK and switched over to MS Visual Studio 2005 Express.  If I
recall correctly, the newer Borland Builder products had a
size restriction imposed by the linker so that, for example,
with VTK, it became impossible to statically compile and link
an application built on VTK.  By all means, stop supporting.
Just my $0.02

Dean
www.camris.ca

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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