[Chandler-dev] Switching to latest Visual Studio?

[D John Anderson]

I'd vote for using the latest Visual Studio. I've been using it for  
awhile on some other projects and it was a painless transition. It  
also has the advantage of having the Vista APIs, which we would be  
useful.

John

On May 2, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> We ordered some new Tinderbox hardware, and already have koa and mana
> running. We have new faster disks for the PPC Macs, but these are  
> still
> waiting for some additional hardware before they can be installed.
> Finally, we have hilo (Windows XP) waiting to start duty as full build
> Tinderbox, but we run into a problem: we can't find the installation
> media for Visual Studio .NET Professional.
>
> Microsoft no longer sells Visual Studio 2003 version. It might be
> available from resellers. In any case, there is a newer version of
> Visual Studio available, and traditionally new versions have brought
> significant improvements both in compiler and other tools. Now  
> there is
> also the potential added benefit that developers might be able to use
> the free MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and we'd do the official
> builds with a version that lets us distribute the msvc DLLs (I  
> tried to
> figure out how to do it with the free version but gave up after a few
> days of trying - there are both license and technological hurdles with
> that). Here is information about my vcexpress2005 branch:
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/VisualC2005ExpressEdition
>
> So I wanted to get your opinion on how we should proceed:
>
> 1) Forget hilo, we'll just use the slow haleakala
> 2) Find a place to get the older Visual Studio and install it on hilo
> 3) Switch to Visual Studio 2005
> 4) Something else, please describe
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
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