Re: VC15 or VS2017?

Jan Ehrhardt in php.internals.win (Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:53:22 +0200):
>Wouldn't it be that Microsoft gradually drops the VC-numbering? We are
>calling Visual Studio 2017 VC15, but what is the ground for that?

Is it just an abbreviation for Visual C/C++, version 15? Then we are at
VC15.1 right now:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes

Excerpt from the 'About' in the VS2017 IDE:

>Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 
>Version 15.1 (26403.7) Release
>VisualStudio.15.Release/15.1.0+26403.7
>
>Visual C++ 2017   00369-60000-00001-AA847
>Microsoft Visual C++ 2017

Visual Studio says it is version 15.1, but Visual C/C++ and C# use the
'2017' as denominator. VS15 and VC2017 come to mind.

Visual Studio 15, Visual C/C++ 2017 and toolset v141. Confusing all
over.

Even the development team suffered by it. Daniel Griffing in
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/5068/when-installing-visual-studio-2017-rc-with-uwp-dev.html?childToView=14493#

>The fact that we temporarily shipped a 'v150' Platform Toolset in early
>Visual Studio "15" Previews was an unfortunate artifact of us working
>through our versioning plan. For Visual Studio 2017 RC, there is no
>'v150' Platform Toolset "By Design".
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Jan