vc8 updates

[Beherith]

Changed requires to the vc8 project files have mounted to a large number, so i cloned head and made it compile on vc8.
The most important stuff is in the .vcproj file, the rest are minor changes to make msvc work.

DIFF:

[hoijui]

why not publishing through a git fork on github?

[Beherith]

because my login already has a spring fork, from an old version of spring, which i cant update to master cause it has roam.

[Tobi]

You should be able to push to a branch in that fork?

[hoijui]

actually roam should be on an other branch then master, and then you should push these fixes to master.
you would have to checkout roam locally, then do git branch roam, then git push origin roam.

[el_matarife]

Visual Studio 2010 and the VC10 compiler come out in 9 days, on April the 12th. I don't know how much longer you're going to want to maintain VC8 support when it is two versions and five years old.

[zerver]

My operating system is more than 5 years old and still works fine. Software needs to mature and it does not hurt to wait until the first service pack comes out.

Those who use a particular VS version maintain the support. When they no longer do so, the support is gone. So this discussion is kind of superfluous.