[Python-Dev] Re: MS VC 7 offer (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave@boost-consulting.com
Wed, 14 May 2003 20:22:46 -0400

Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> writes:

Did I miss the answer to why bother to move to VC7?

As a C project I know of very little to recommend VC7 or VC7.1. As a C++ developer I've decided that VC7 as little more then a broken VC6.

That was roughly my experience, support for template template arguments notwithstanding.

Maybe Jesse Lipcon (who works for MS now) has managed to make VC7.1 more standards compatible for C++ work, which would recommend it to C++ developers.

That's not a maybe. As a hard-core C++-head, I can tell you that it's like night and day. VC7.1 is very, very good.

Note that wxPython claims that it will not compile correctly with VC7 unless you add a work around for a bug in the code generator.

It's very unlikely that this bug survived the VC7.1 release, but I suppose it's possible.

-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com