RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-28 Thread Scott Zhong
+1 -Original Message- From: Eric Lemings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:21 AM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0 In light of that info, +1 > -Original Message- > From: Tim Adams [mailto:

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 custome

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 propo

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 non-com

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I'll be at C++ committee meeting in Bellevue which happens to be hosted by Microsoft the last week of February so I might drop in for a bit. Is there a link with more details? (I know there were at least two emails announcing it but they're most likely sitting on my hard driv

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Sebor
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: 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 an

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 ev

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 syntax

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
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 u

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 non-

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

Re: [VOTE] discontinue supporting of the MSVC 7.0

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Sebor
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. Thi