Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:
Current results show that **39%** of respondents still cling to VC6 rather than 7.x or 8.0. Many of them do so out of necessity, because they can't assume porting some project to a newest IDE --and, curiously enough, some like VC6 IDE better !!
So there are lots of people using VC6 in order to support legacy projects. Is there any good reason why these legacy projects need support from a new Boost release? A lot of arguments here sound as if people are afraid that Boost will completely remove everything that ever worked with the old compiler. But if 1.34 drops support for compilers, there is no doubt that 1.33 will still be available for download. Those that simply like VC6 better I have no pity for. I have been using 6, 7 and 7.1 and I definitely see no significant advantages to the old IDE - rather the other way round. IntelliSense in VC6 was horribly broken, for example. That's not to mention the compiler itself. Sebastian Redl