[sldev] [HELP] VS 2008?

[Eric M. Tulla (BigPapi)]

That's correct.  The WindLight team is almost exclusively is using 
VS2005 for Windows dev work.  The better intellisense and STL foo in 
VS2005 made it a no brainer for us, since effectively all of our work is 
viewer side.

Kelly Linden wrote:
> Internally the big blocker for anything past VS 2003 are the libs for 
> our extremely out dated current version of Havok.  We don't really 
> want to require 2 different versions of VS to develop on windows 
> (servers vs clients), especially with Havok4 so close.  I've heard 
> rumors that at least some of the Windlight team regularly use VS 2005 
> already, since they rarely (if ever) need to work on the server code 
> for their project.
>
> If I were to hazard a guess, a full switch to 2005 will probably 
> happen sometime relatively soon after Havok4 is completed and 
> released.  Depending on how long that takes, and how long until the 
> switch actually happens, 2008 may be a possibility.  I personally am a 
> bit hesitant about being on the bleeding edge there and would rather 
> wait until the bugs which will undoubtedly be found by general use are 
> found and fixed.
>
> If you want to help the havok4 testing, jump on the beta grid when it 
> is back up.  :D
>
>  - Kelly
>
>
> Joshy Squashy wrote:
>> Visual Studio 2008 is out, and Microsoft is actually offering 90 day 
>> trials for the professional version at 
>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx
>>
>> I was wondering if there was any interest in somebody possibly 
>> updating the wiki for compiling with the new development 
>> environment.  I was also wondering if there were any plans for Linden 
>> Labs to switch to using 2005 or 2008 now that they are two versions 
>> behind.
>>
>> ~Squash Otoro
>>
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