[Bf-committers] re: no more <iostream.h> support in MSVC 7.1

[LarstiQ]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:12:35PM +0200, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few months ago we had a 'maintainer' for the MSVC 7 files  
> (JesterKing). He's disappeared out of sight a bit... so it might be  
> time to find someone else to be responsible for it.
> 
> The link you've provided is a much too long read for a non-windows  
> developer... with some searching through the text i could only find  
> that MS drops iostream.h, but not the usage of dot.h in general?
> 
> Anyhoo, this can be patched in our code, with some #ifdef VISUAL_C_7 or  
> so... but I rather leave that to the more experienced windows coders  
> here to decide on. But most likely, we'll consider MSVC 7 an exception,  
> not the default. :)

Is it actually a problem with any compilers? Afaik it is correct, and
gcc supports <header> style C++ headers.

LarstiQ