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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-04-21 13:41:09 -0400
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-04-21 13:45:45 -0400
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Deprecate Visual Studio 8 2005 generator
Update documentation to mark the generator deprecated. Add a warning at the end of generation plus an option to turn off the warning.
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Visual Studio 8 2005
--------------------
-Generates Visual Studio 8 2005 project files.
+Deprecated. Generates Visual Studio 8 2005 project files.
+
+.. note::
+ This generator is deprecated and will be removed in a future version
+ of CMake. It will still be possible to build with VS 8 2005 tools
+ using the :generator:`Visual Studio 10 2010` (or above) generator
+ with :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` set to ``v80``, or by
+ using the :generator:`NMake Makefiles` generator.
The :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set
to specify a target platform name.