[Insight-developers] [Insight-users] ITK & VISUAL STUDIO 6.0 : How many users ?

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis,

Please do not drop VS70. It's the last copy of Visual Studio I will
buy with my own money... After all, I am on a fixed income now.
Actually, VS71 has some problems also.

Also, I am against a one day experiment at this point. We are very
close to a totally green dashboard (I don't think we have ever had
one) and we have a lot of new developers adopting bugs. I predict some
pain...

BTW, itk already has partial specialization implemented in a portable
way in itkImageTransformHelper.h using a "trick" suggested by Brad
King a couple of years ago.

As for vtk and itk, I think of them as cousins, part of a family, even
though one is a bit more sophisticated than the other.

Bill

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
>
>
> A) Is VS 6.0 the only one that doesn't
>   support partial specialization ?
>
>
> My recollection is that at some point it was recommended
> that if we dropped support for Visual Studio 6.0, we should
> do it as well for VS 7.0 since it also have some weaknesses
> on support for templated code.
>
>       I humbly suggest a one-day experiment:
>
> Let's commit to CVS an isolated small file that exercise
> template partial specialization, and tomorrow we will have
> an answer for the range of platforms that we support.
>
> Yes, it will cost a day of red Dashboard,...  :-/
>
> but if nothing depends on this file, then we will still get
> all the test running for the normal submissions.
>
> A less exciting option is to pass around a minimal example,
> and we compile in our local machines, then report back to
> the Wiki page:
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Dropping_Support_for_Visual_Studio_6.0
>
>
>
> B) Does VTK supports VS60 ?
>
>   Yes, VTK is build Nightly on VS60 on Dash13.kitware.
>
>   I see the point that it may be good to have a similar
>   set of platforms for ITK and VTK.
>
>
>   However,
>   VTK's uses of generic programming is a lot lighther
>   than ITK's, and therefor, supporting VS60 may not
>   represent in VTK the same level of restriction that it
>   is in ITK.
>
>
>
>   Luis
>
>
>
> ---------------------
> Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Luis,
>>
>> Are we positive that VS6 is the only ITK-supported compiler that does
>> not support partial specialization?
>>
>> Also, does VTK support the VS6 compiler? I think it does.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It has been pointed out in the following bug report that
>>> we should consider dropping support for Visual Studio 6.0:
>>>
>>>
>>>    http://www.itk.org/Bug/view.php?id=7006
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We would like to hear from users on how important they
>>> consider the support for Visual Studio 6.0 to be in ITK.
>>>
>>> In other words:
>>>
>>>
>>>       How many users are building ITK
>>>       applications with Visual Studio 6.0  ?
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>>       How critical is this support for them ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The suggestion in the bug report is to drop the support
>>> for Visual Studio 6.0, in order to be able to introduce
>>> partial specialization in the toolkit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  We will appreciate your feedback,
>>>
>>>
>>>   Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>      Luis
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>>
>>
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