What's the oldest MS VC version Parrot should built with?

Ron Blaschke ron at rblasch.org
Thu Dec 18 21:02:10 UTC 2008


Vadim Konovalov wrote:

> Sorry for the late reply,may be its too late :) There are reasons why
> many systems support VC6.IMO Perl5 hardly ever discontinues VC6, but
> also Tcl/Tk, clisp, etc prefer VC6 over newer Visual C's Mostly this
> is due to CRT, which has different distribution conditions (both on
> legal side and physizal size in bytes).

IMHO, if we want to continue to support VC6 we should evaluate the
reasons for doing so in the context of Parrot, not just because other
projects chose to do so.

Ron


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