[ODE] 0.6 Release

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Yeah, my position is to be flexible but not over indulging, this was an 
easy fix, I dont mind it, but dont expect me
to keep an eye out for VC6 glitches in the future. :)

Geoff Carlton wrote:

>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:
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>>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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