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On 5/19/2010 8:38 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
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>no time will be spent on VS2005 or VS2008<br>
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Thanks Kelly, I'd like to understand why they won't be supported.<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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-phil.<br>
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