5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
6:38 a.m.
Beman Dawes wrote:
In doing a postmortem of the past couple of releases with Thomas Witt, he made a very strong case that testing is a major bottleneck. If developers and release managers have to wait several days to find out if a fix works, it slows progress to a crawl.
One of the things we can do to eliminate that bottleneck is to cut the number of release criteria compilers down to a more manageable number, and to compilers where testing is very reliably and runs several times a day.
My candidates for the release criteria compilers are:
* Microsoft VC++ 8.0 on Win32
My feeling is that VC++ 7.1 is at least as commonly used as 8.0. Unmanaged C++ users never really had any major reason to upgrade from 7.1. / Johan