RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
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 was abandoned quickly in favor of 7.1. So my vote is also +1 in favor of dropping 7.0. -- Tim -Original Message- From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin 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 to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version. Everyone is encouraged to vote, including non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd +1 in favor of dropping MSVC 7.0 in 4.3. Martin Farid.
Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
It was about time. +1 Tim Adams wrote: Our experience with our customer base indicates that MSVC 7.0 was abandoned quickly in favor of 7.1. So my vote is also +1 in favor of dropping 7.0. -- Tim -Original Message- From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin 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 to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version. Everyone is encouraged to vote, including non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd +1 in favor of dropping MSVC 7.0 in 4.3. Martin Farid.
RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
Our experience with our customer base indicates that MSVC 7.0 was abandoned quickly in favor of 7.1. So my vote is also +1 in favor of dropping 7.0. -- Tim -Original Message- From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin 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 to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version. Everyone is encouraged to vote, including non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd +1 in favor of dropping MSVC 7.0 in 4.3. Martin Farid.
Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
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 non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd +1 in favor of dropping MSVC 7.0 in 4.3. That seems like a good jumping-off folks, with a 4.2.x maintenance release still on the way. +1 It's awfully hard to write a solid library implementation on top of half a compiler. Bill
Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
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 syntax, IMHO). Seems quite a few users have parked on 2003 just because of the nasty implications of moving to 2005 (at least for the C compiler). But 2002 / VC 7.0? I agree it appears to be abandonware. A bigger reference point is that VS 2003, 2005 and 2008 compilers can be found for free, which makes the call for VC 6 and 7 much less compelling. When compiler tools were quite expensive for Joe Hacker, there was a real incentive to help Joe out and keep supporting his old compiler. Good point! 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 even bigger headache go away ;-) Martin Bill
Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
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 even bigger headache go away ;-) :-) Speaking of which, advocates, is anyone planning on dropping into the Redmond compatibility labs meet up at the end of February? I know I'm planning to be there. Bill
Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0
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 non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd Farid. +1 to remove VC7.0 support for the 4.3 release. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-VOTE--discontinue-supporting-of-the-MSVC-7.0-tp15065299p15112326.html Sent from the stdcxx-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
