Re: [PATCH21.5] MS Visual Studio 2005 and XP visual themes
Fabrice wrote:
I have tested VS2005 beta six months ago and I have been hit by some
new politics from MS regarding MSVCRT : they decided not to support
anymore most of the string functions from the C library, at least
not in their old form.
...
Perhaps this is the "pain in the butt" issue that Stephen reports from
the Python maintainer.
...
IIRC there is a compatibility mode reporting only warnings. However,
clearly MS wants to rule out the old C library from the stuff they
support. This is what I have infered from my tests.
I found that basically everything worked fine apart from lots of
warnings along the lines of "The POSIX name for this item is
deprecated...", which this patch suppresses. The only other issue is
packaging up the std C library for redistribution, which I'll address in
another patch.
VS2005 is available in a free (as in beer) version[*] and so is likely
to be popular. I think that in the past we've supported the last two
versions of MS tools, which would suggest dropping support for VS 6.
Jonathan.
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/