On 1/20/2012 3:39 PM, Gregg L. Smith wrote: > On 1/20/2012 1:04 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> On 1/20/2012 2:50 PM, Steffen wrote: >>> Building with GUI must be possible, always ! That is just the very strong >>> point for >>> building windows; do not degrade. >> >> Did not suggest otherwise (with still supported products al la studio 2003+). >> That doesn't include supporting a 6-year-dead gui already requiring an extra >> years-dead SDK. Remember 2.4.0 is a complete break with the past in terms of >> binary compatibility. It is the time to lose baggage. > > My concern for removing dsw/dsp was less about supporting VC6 and more about > supporting a > faster way of converting the solution/projects files, this is my big concern. > To keep > these, and supply VC10 sln/proj seems to me the best way to deal with this > *at this time* > and is a win/win for everything VC >= 7. > > The easiest way to kill support for VC6 is the move to C99, not necessarily > dumping the > dsw/dsp files :) Please do not think of them as baggage, but instead as a > tool to get > where any one of us VC <=9 might want to go quickly, until such time as there > is another way. > > I'll grant you, it seems the full package of these is a little over 800k. > Storage is > cheap, or is what I read all the time. Bandwidth on the other hand is not, > and zip is > nothing close to tar.gz when it comes to text files it seems sadly. > > You mentioned that 2003 & 2005 have extended support, what makes you sure > 2008 will not > get same, since 2010 was not well adopted? We'll have to wait and see how > 2011 plays out.
Extended support is irrespective of adoption. Extended does not mean full support. Read up on MS's EOL policies (others call this twilight support, extended commercial support, security-fix-only support, legacy deployments only support, etc etc). VS2008 goes into 2018, VS2010 goes into 2020.
