<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What Phil says... ;^)<div><br></div><div><div>Zeroing in on VS2010 will remove many complex situations in the builds.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-kto</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 19, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Phil Race wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 5/19/2010 8:38 AM, Pete Brunet wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BF405FD.8030708@a11ysoft.com" type="cite"> >no time will be spent on VS2005 or VS2008<br> <br> Thanks Kelly, I'd like to understand why they won't be supported.<br> </blockquote> <br> 1. We won't be using them at all internally so we will have no idea if they work.<br> Folks will complain if we say they are supported but don't work. We have<br> absolutely zero cycles to even investigate this. <br> <br> 2. We we will be updating to the Windows 7 SDK to get access to<br> newer windows features. Since the VS2010 compilers include a Windows 7 SDK<br> it makes things a whole lot cleaner. One install that supports 32 and 64 bit.<br> To support VS2005 at that point would require a mix of the SDK and the<br> compiler. More complexity. Especially tricky for 64 bit where <br> the compiler we've always used is the one from the April 2005 SDK.<br> <br> 3. 2008 requires uses of side-by-side assemblies for MSVCR90.DLL<br> Whilst that has some benefits for MS, its a real pain for any one trying to<br> create their own installer. So much so that MS changed their mind<br> and went back to MSVCR100.DLL being a regular DLL (phew).<br> So we don't want to deal with that. It might not matter for a "developer build"<br> but its a real problem when you need to go further.<br> <br> -phil.<br> <br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:4BF405FD.8030708@a11ysoft.com" type="cite"> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <font size="1" color="#0060a0" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Pete Brunet</b></font><br> <font color="#0060a0"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> </span></font><br> <font size="1" color="#333333" face="Arial, sans serif"> a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development<br> (512) 238-6967 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell)<br> Skype: pete.brunet<br> IM: ptbrunet (AOL, Google), <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ptbrunet@live.com">ptbrunet@live.com</a> (MSN)<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/">http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/</a><br> Ionosphere: WS4G <br> </font> </div> </blockquote> <br> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>