[Buildbot-devel] BuildBot & Visual Studios....

[Dmitry Nezhevenko]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:14:15PM -0700, BRM wrote:
> > You are right. VC6 doesn't have this. But VC6 also don't have vcbuild
> > IIRC. And finally it's just a piece crap...
> > 
> > I still remember hacks like "#define for if (false); else for" to let 
> > it
> > compile somethings. boost already dropped VC6 support.
> 
> That may be. But there are still those of us who are stuck with it for
> various reasons - especially in the commercial world.  So supporting it
> is still a good thing, especially when the support is so cheap to do.
> ;-)

I agree that it may be still useful for some probably legacy commercial
that nobody wants to rewrite/port to newer compiler.

Probably the only way to support it is to use old approach with
"devenv.com"... There will be funny time when M$ will drop devenv.com
(maybe in 2011?)

-- 
WBR, Dmitry
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