On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xiao-Feng Li said the following on 07.03.2008 7:14: > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Xiao-Feng Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > > MSVC2005 is a minimum requirement now, I think. > >> > > > >> > > I am running fine on MS VStudio 2003. > >> > > >> > I see almost all of those new Harmony users were frustrated by the > >> > build failures with VS2005, so it's not only a developer's issue. We > >> > should be realistic and Harmony better be user-friendly. > >> > > >> > >> Does the build documentation say that anything besides VS2003 is > >> supported? I agree that we should try to get things working on VS2005, > >> but is there a problem in our documentation that's confusing people? > > > > That the documentation doesn't say doesn't mean the users won't try. > > We should be realistic and Harmony should be user-friendly. It's year > > 2008 now. If the documentation doesn't say Harmony supports > > application HelloWorld, can't the users try it? ;) > > I agree. Also there is a problem with getting VS2003 since it is no > longer available for free from MS. BTW, the current version is not even > VS2005, MS provides it as an "old version" and may discontinue its > download at any moment. The current version is VS2008 and we didn't even > try to use it yet. >
So, is VS2008 what we should target? Is the "free" tool chain sufficient? I believe we can get some licenses for committers that might be more seriously interested. -Nathan > -- > Gregory > >
