[ODE] 0.6 Release

[John Miles]

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]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,
>