Re: [Firebird-devel] RC1 - Win32 - Zip distro - MS libraries missing

[Olivier M. <om-...@ti...>]

Le 12 avr. 06 =E0 12:13, Dmitry Yemanov a =E9crit :

>> Why then didn't we move to the latest MSVC8 (2005)?
>
> Because we don't have years of experience with the new compiler and =20=

> hence I
> don't trust the code it produces. I had too many issues with VC7.0 =20
> to be
> optimisic in this question.

Well, in my personal case, the new compiler showed much more stable =20
at producing right code for commercial production applications since =20
we moved to it in november 2005. That's only 5 months experience =20
(plus the beta stage while we were testing it), but we wouldn't turn =20
back for any reason. This is the first time upgrading Microsoft =20
compiler didn't introduced bugs in our work (as it occurred when =20
moving from VC6 to VC7.1) but helped discover some lurking issues =20
(thanks to some better warnings and errors and more robust support =20
library, not to mention much improved debugger, even though more =20
resources intensive).

This said, I understand your point of view.

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Olivier Mascia