Proposals:Dropping Support for Visual Studio 6.0: Difference between revisions

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== Against Dropping Support ==
== Against Dropping Support ==


* Bill Lorensen
* Bill Lorensen: Partial specialization can be implemented in Visual Studio 6; see [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/Common/itkImageTransformHelper.h?root=Insight&view=log itkImageTransformHelper.h]
Partial specialization can be implemented in Visual Studio 6; see [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/Common/itkImageTransformHelper.h?root=Insight&view=log itkImageTransformHelper.h]
** Comment (Gert Wollny): No, the example shows ''function (template) overloading'' and not ''partial template specialization'' - compare e.g. [http://www.amazon.com/C%2B%2B-Templates-Complete-David-Vandevoorde/dp/0201734842/ D. Vandevoorde and  N. M. Josuttis "C++ Templates"] pp.179-204.
* user5
* user5
* user6
* user6

Revision as of 17:02, 21 May 2008


It has been suggested that ITK should drop support of the Visual Studio 6.0 compiler.

http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-May/025838.html

Motivation

  • Lack of support for template partial specialization
  • The compiler is about 10 years old
  • It is out the market (Microsoft doesn't sell it anymore)

User's Opinions

Please add your opinions here:

In Favor of Dropping Support

  • Hans Johnson: My vote has stayed the same for many years now. I think that the need to support partial specialization is critical for future of ITK. Dropping support for VS6 will allow us to move the toolkit forward.
  • Alex. Gouaillard
  • Gert Wollny (I filed the bug report)
  • user3
  • Brian Gee Chacko

Against Dropping Support

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