[ODE] 0.6 Release

[Geoff Carlton]

Perhaps we should get 0.6 out the door as a "last good release" for VC6, 
then look to stop bothering with it after that.

We aren't talking about too much here, just a few for statements and the 
old min/max issue.

Geoff


Vast wrote:
> but i love my MSVC6! :(
>
> On 5/15/06, *John Miles* <jmiles at pop.net <mailto:jmiles at pop.net>> wrote:
>
>     Seconded: it makes zero sense to support MSVC 6 anymore.  Hose it.
>
>     -- john
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: ode-bounces at q12.org <mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org>
>     [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org <mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org>]On Behalf
>     Of Jon
>     > Watte (ODE)
>     > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:57 PM
>     > To: Jason Perkins
>     > Cc: ode-list
>     > Subject: Re: [ODE] 0.6 Release
>     >
>     >
>     > Macros are evil.
>     >
>     > The right thing to do is to explicitly #undef min and max after
>     > including the system headers, so that the evil horrible macros that
>     > earlier version of MS headers define, aren't defined anymore.
>     >
>     > Also, for the broken MSVC 6 "for" loop scoping, the canonical
>     fix is to
>     > add this define to a header:
>     >
>     > #define for if(0);else for
>     >
>     > However, MSVC version 6 is now 8 years old. It might be time to
>     retire
>     > it -- especially since microsoft is giving away version 8 for
>     free (in
>     > the "express edition" versions). I would submit that making sure
>     that
>     > ODE works well with MSVC Express Edition is much more important than
>     > support for the fairly broken 6.0.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
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