RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Lemings
In light of that info, +1 -Original Message- From: Tim Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:37 AM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0 Our experience with our customer base indicates that MSVC 7.0

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-27 Thread Liviu Nicoara
Sebor Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:39 AM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0 Farid Zaripov wrote: For now we are supporting four versions of the MSVC starting from 7.0. The MSVC 7.0 doesn't supports the modern C++ features and I propose

RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread Tim Adams
AM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0 Farid Zaripov wrote: For now we are supporting four versions of the MSVC starting from 7.0. The MSVC 7.0 doesn't supports the modern C++ features and I propose to discontinue supporting of this compiler

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Farid Zaripov wrote: For now we are supporting four versions of the MSVC starting from 7.0. The MSVC 7.0 doesn't supports the modern C++ features and I propose to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version. Everyone is encouraged to vote, including

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Sebor
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Tim Adams wrote: Our experience with our customer base indicates that MSVC 7.0 was abandoned quickly in favor of 7.1. FWIW - that same generation, VS.NET's C++.NET implementation model was completely abandoned and restructured in VS.2005 (a massively better

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: With MS awakening to the significance of free compilers on every real operating system, they've blinked, and made that headache dissolve for us. Now if they would only awaken to the importance of standards like C99 and POSIX they would make an

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread Travis Vitek
Farid Zaripov-2 wrote: For now we are supporting four versions of the MSVC starting from 7.0. The MSVC 7.0 doesn't supports the modern C++ features and I propose to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version. Everyone is encouraged to vote, including