On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Jeff Cohen wrote:> Just make sure you read the uninstall instructions before installing. > Microsoft has been known to essentially require the reformatting your > boot partition in order to uninstall beta versions of VS. And, of > course, it is required that you uninstall the beta before installing a > newer beta or the release version.Urrggg! I missed this! Can you point me to that? Anyway, on Microsoft side, basically you HAVE to reinstall Windows every 150gg as it starts collapsing ;-)))>> I think you're right that "standardization" on the VC 8 compiler is >> somewhat risky. We should continue the 7.1 effort while also using >> 8(beta) and when 8 is ready, then it should become the standard for >> windows (assuming it actually implements the C++ standard correctly!) > > It all depends on how well it works with 7.1. Hopefully it won't be > much longer before we know for sure.Well, right now I've compiled the core with both, and the problems are exactly the sames... I think that the big difference in ANSI compliance was between 6 and 7 (keep an eye on boost regression...) MS effort in serie 8 is targeted to performance (exploiting better custom instruction for different i386 processor) and on the .NET side... I don't expect any issue resolved upgrading from 7.1 to 8. BTW, if you want, tomorrow can post what is failing to compile with VC 7.1 and why... it's not too much. --- Paolo Invernizzi
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:51:08 +0200 Paolo Invernizzi <arathorn at fastwebnet.it> wrote:> > On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Jeff Cohen wrote: > > > Just make sure you read the uninstall instructions before installing. > > Microsoft has been known to essentially require the reformatting your > > boot partition in order to uninstall beta versions of VS. And, of > > course, it is required that you uninstall the beta before installing a > > newer beta or the release version. > > Urrggg! I missed this! Can you point me to that? > Anyway, on Microsoft side, basically you HAVE to reinstall Windows > every 150gg as it starts collapsing ;-)))I cannot find any specific instructions for uninstalling the VC++ 2005 Express Edition. There is this README file: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/readme/default.aspx. As it isn't the full Visual Studio it probably isn't messing around with Windows system files. I do know for a fact that the Visual Studio .NET beta years ago could not be uninstalled without reformatting. It stopped me from installing it.
On Sep 15, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Jeff Cohen wrote:> I cannot find any specific instructions for uninstalling the VC++ 2005 > Express Edition. There is this README file: > http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/readme/default.aspx. As > it isn't the full Visual Studio it probably isn't messing around with > Windows system files. > > I do know for a fact that the Visual Studio .NET beta years ago could > not be uninstalled without reformatting. It stopped me from installing > it.I'm a little optimistic about this issue then... The README file states about problems uninstalling it on 64-bit platform, and it mentions several little problems related to the uninstall process.. but they are little glitches so I'm expecting the uninstall process is not so bad! At least it seems they have tested it! ;-) --- Paolo Invernizzi