[sldev] [HELP] VS 2008? -- The Cat is out of the bag!

[Dzonatas]

Kelly Linden wrote:
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> I would rather this not get derailed into a debate on the merits of 
> various dependencies.  Yes, there are very good reasons to choose open 
> source deps, there are also reasons to choose closed source deps some 
> times or to continue to use the libraries we already use.  This was a 
> specific question about the version of VS we use (note that this 
> dependency problem in this case is only effecting you if you run a 
> closed source OS and develop with closed source dev tools ....).  I 
> provided some insight into why we use the version we use so that the 
> OS community would have a better idea when it might change.  I think 
> the debate on using OS deps has happened, and I'm sure it will happen 
> again.  It deserves it's own thread though.

It's a bit uncalled-for to say this was "derailed".

Some of us have just found other ways to say things without showing an 
exploit that would break terms.

Unexpectedly, it has been published:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/1331246

It includes STL and a few other factors. I sent details to the internal 
security list a months ago.

There are very valid reasons to research dependencies and make a well 
thought-out choice about Visual Studio (& Windows target version).

-- 
Power to Change the Void
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