"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr@rudbek.com> writes:
Actually, I'm little surprised that this thread has not come (yet) to the issue of supporting old compilers. IMVHO, when it comes to testing, these compilers are real problem.
when it comes to writing/updating the libraries, support of these fossils is staggeringly expensive.
I just want to point out that the "fossils" with major conformance problems are still in extremely wide use in industry, and some are even the latest official releases (see Borland). One of my most progressive and forward-thinking clients is still using vc6 for production work. They're anxious to upgrade to vc7.1, but haven't yet had the opportunity. I'd love to stop hacking around vc6 and borland limitations, but we should be sure we understand what we're doing when that day comes. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com