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

Vadim Konovalov vadrer at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 14:24:50 UTC 2008


在 Friday 19 December 2008 21:29:42,chromatic 写道:
> On Friday 19 December 2008 13:05:42 Ron Blaschke wrote:
> > I don't think there will be huge efforts to break VC6, just that people
> > may not consider it when making changes.  If things break (it's quite
> > possible they don't) and a fix that someone provides doesn't completely
> > mess things up, I don't see any reason not to include it.  It may be
> > best just to see how things go, and discuss this when an actual issue
> > arises.
>
> Right.  We're not going to break it on purpose, and we'll take patches from
> someone dedicated to supporting it provided that they don't adversely
> affect our target platforms, but it's not a target platform for Parrot,
> regardless of what other projects decide about target platforms.

yes, that makes me feel better :)
I was afraid that one time ./Configure.pl will not allow VC6, but I'm fine if 
that's not the case :)

> "Target platform for Parrot" means "The tests must pass on this platform
> for Parrot 1.0."
>
> -- c
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