From: <br...@ph...> - 2006-07-17 21:21:42
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Ethan A Merritt wrote: > Hmm. And the problem Mojca was having with locale settings also seems to > arise from using an earlier version of Visual Studio. If anything, it's more likely too *new* a version he's using. VC++ version 6 is out of date, by MS's reckoning. As far as they're concerned, no application developer is supposed to be programming in C any more. We're all supposed to have switched from (their slight bastardization of) C to their much worse bastardizations of Java (C#) or C++, by now. > Does this mean we should add a caveat somewhere in the docs that if > you are building on Windows with the MicroSoft tool chain, it > requires VS 6.0? I don't think we have sufficient evidence to make the statement that strong. > Can Windows users download updated C libraries, or do they have to buy > a whole new package? They'd have to download backdated C libraries --- and those cost more than the brand-new honey-trap versions. |