On 01.11.2010, at 02:46, Greg Ercolano wrote:

> Matthias Melcher wrote:
>> 
>> VisualC 2008 and VisualC 2010 are free in their Express version and have 
>> been out in the field long enough to be the state of the art. I would like 
>> to suggest to drop support of any IDE files older than two major releases of 
>> that IDE.
>> 
>> I know that there are still a few VC6 junkies out there (including me - it's 
>> just so blazing fast without all the additional junk), but let's face it: 
>> dinosaurs were doomed too.
> 
>       I'd like to request we continue to support VS7 ".NET",
>       (the last store-bought version of the compiler that I purchased)
>       because it doesn't have all that nasty manifest stuff that makes
>       it almost impossible to deploy executables to folks with older
>       OS's (Win2K, XP SP2, etc), and thus is a magic compiler that
>       works best for commercial releases.
> 
>       Or has someone found a way to disable the manifests requirement,
>       so that executables generated by "Express" compilers won't barf
>       on the older OS's?

Hmm. I compile with VC2010 on XP. So I assume that the apps run on XP as well 
(other than my own machine). I am not sure about Win2K though - are there still 
users?
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