On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:34:54AM -0800, Brandon Ehle wrote:
> >
> >
> >>* The VC.NET stuff is a mess and doesn't really work. Most of the
> >>barriers to getting this finished are finding workarounds for VC.NET
> >>bugs. Even with non-autogenerated projects, the linker also tends to
> >>crash alot compiling subversion, so people should probably hold off
> >>compiling subversion with VC.NET until MS releases a patch for the
> >>the linker.
> >
> >
> >So what gives here. Not being a Windows guy, I went out and purchased
> >copies of Visual C++ .net and C# .net and thanks to ras, SQLServer.
> >Are you saying I can't do Subversion work on windows with my bought
> >and paid for C++ compiler? The friggin thing took forever to
> >install. Uggggh.
>
> You can use it, I am just saying that I've had tons of problems with the
> initial release and complex code crashing the linker, so unless you want
> to deal with the headaches, wait for the first Service Pack which should
> hopefully fix these issues.
>
>
Just so you all know VS.NET 7.1 is in beta. While I wasn't involved in it at
all, I would guess that it fixes many of the problems you have been seeing.
Has anyone tried it?
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