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
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