[vtk-developers] Changing/Defining VTK's minimum Mac OS X requirements?

[David E DeMarle]

Of course we may want to support more than these for VTK but with
ParaView we're only releasing binaries for 10.5 and up on Intel 64 bit
machines and limiting ourselves to using Cocoa.

I don't know exactly why that decision was made (it happened sometime
between pv3.10 and 12) but it certainly does help to keep the time and
effort involved in making, testing and releasing binaries bounded.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've seen a few mails on this list lately about some backwards incompatible changes coming to VTK (TextAnalysis move, vtkstd::) and it got me wondering...
>
> What is the minimum Mac OS X that VTK should support?  Can we increase the minimum?  There's a lot of cruft in there to support old versions, and the need to support old versions prevents (or complicates) using newer API.
>
> Here's a little table to help us decide...
>
> 10.4 - release Apr 2005
> 10.5 - release Oct 2007 - last to support PowerPC hardware
> 10.6 - release Aug 2009 - last to support 32bit Intel hardware
> 10.7 - release July 2011 - requires 64 bit Intel hardware
> 10.8 - release summer 2012?
>
> Cheers,
>
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