Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Re: Compilers, SDK support roadmap

Pierre Joye wrote: > VC9 is relatively new (released this year, 1st service packin beta > phase). Other projects like ICU use VC8 (I heard that Apache may move > to VC8 as well). We can choose to go with VC9 but we may have to > provide our own custom builds (server and libs) for too long and > that's a big time consuming task. > > The good news is that VC8 and VC9 are very closed and sources are > almost always compatible. Except some posix compliances stuff being > (re)introduced like vsnprintf or limits.h, it is a matter of simply > importing a project in VC9 to get a VC9 build. Note that the server > 2k8 SDK (PSDK 6.0/6.1) supports VC8 and VC9. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > At this point... until/if Apache moves we're stuck anyway - either way we're going to have to do a minimum of two builds for awhile until the rest of the open source world catches up ;) Elizabeth