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

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On Sunday 30 November 2008 12:03:22 Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 20:15 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote:

> > The only good reason I can think of to keep VC7 is because it's the last
> > version to support Windows NT.  VC9 targets Windows 2000 and up (XP,
> > Server 2003, Vista).
>
> I'm all in favor of supporting old and unusual *hardware*, and certainly
> I believe in supporting operating system releases for several years, but
> I think a *decade* is a safe outer limit.  Especially when the vendor in
> question EOLed it several years ago.

I can't imagine supporting anything older than XP, unless someone with time 
and resources really wants to support Win2k.  VC9 sounds like a good target.

-- c