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

[David Gobbi]

The cruft for OS X 10.3 can be removed.  How much cruft is there for
10.4 that isn't also needed for 10.5?

As long as 10.5 is supported, Carbon must be supported because in
10.5 it is used by the Tk interface of Python and Tcl, which is part of
the VTK testing and used by third party apps.  I can't see dropping 10.5
anytime soon, there are still lots of 10.5 boxes around.

 - David


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:58 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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