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- From: normanb@halcyon.com (Norm Bryar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: MSVC 2.0 <-> MSVC 4.0
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 14:50:56 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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- sbetz@pop.gun.de (Stephan 'FRiDAY' Betz) wrote:
-
- >Heya !
-
- >Does anybody know of any problems moving MSVC2.0 project to MSVC4.0 ?
- >I'd like to use the benefits of MSVC 4.0. But how do you say: never
- >touch a running system and I'm kind of afraid moving my project.
-
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated,
-
- >Stephan Betz (sbetz@pop.gun.de)
-
-
- We ported a couple hundred thousand lines of code and all we
- encountered was a change in WaveOut()'s argument type, something Ex
- instead of something.
-
- Meanwhile, we got dynamic_cast<>(), STL, namespaces, and make-file
- changes that to use relative paths for targets and dependencies,
- allowing our version-control program to put our project on any drive
- or directory without us having to change the makefile to reflect the
- new location.
-
- And, of course, the usual benefits of upgrading: bug-fixes,
- product-support, etc.
-
- VC4.0 has its own bugs, however, like occassionally coloring text as
- commented when its not commented. Occassionally losing track of the
- on-line helpfile over the net, etc. But, we can live with those.
-
- --Norm
-
-