[ODE] 0.6 Release

[Vast]

but i love my MSVC6! :(

On 5/15/06, John Miles <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]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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