Hi @greenrongreen thanks for sharing the notice, I would like to ask a question and signal something:
Question: will the C/C++ classic compilers follow the same calendar of deprecation and removal?
What I want to signal: you have marked this in the blog:
It is quite possible that future updates to Microsoft Visual Studio and/or Windows may break your software installation.
Well, I do understand that you want to encourage users to move forward and use your lates versions, even more so as we have users of our own and also push them to move forward. But I guess that you are aware that once a production chain is validated one cannot simply jump into the next version like that, it takes time and one needs to compare the old and the new intensively before moving…
Currently my “production” packages are still vs2019+Parallel Studio XE2020, and I’m just using vs2022+oneAPI2023 to test… but making this work cost me 1 week of having my work station almost broken, with a lot of patience I managed to recover my system, and just recently a colleague of mine had to reboot his C drive because nothing was responding after trying to fix the old package to work.
I understand that intel does not provide support for the old installations together with the new and that you warn about not taking in anymore bug reports from the old, that’s fair and just normal… but from there to breaking the old installation, that feels kind of extreme and it is discouraging those who actually want to try out your new products (and have a production to keep) to even think about it…
I haven’t figured out why it happened, after breaking two PCs and solving by brute force I’m not willing to encourage any of my colleagues to take the risk to see if he/she has luck and the PC survives the journey.
Maybe you will encourage me to open a ticket on the Intel Forum, I did but got no useful answers, when I saw the reply asking questions months later of having solved the issue I could not send any traces of the broken installation as I had fixed it without knowing how … my only clue is that after uninstalling everything I re-installed in backwards order (vs2022>oneAPI>vs2019>PS XE2020)
Please take this just as a kind complaint from a frustrated user that would like to actually encourage the use of the new technologies but is having problems to do so…