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
> 
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> 

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