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

[David Cole]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:08:14 -0700, David Gobbi said:
>
>>The cruft for OS X 10.3 can be removed.
>
> I certainly agree.  Does the ARB?  Does the community?  I'll submit a patch if so.
>
>>How much cruft is there for
>>10.4 that isn't also needed for 10.5?
>
> There are a few things.
>
> But it's not only a matter of cruft.  Potentially useful API like Core Animation and NSTrackingArea were introduced in 10.5.  It would be much easier for VTK to adopt them if we didn't need a 10.4 case.  ex: It could be interesting for VTK to render into a CALayer instead of an NSView for example.
>
> Do you need 10.4 support?
>
> Thanks,
>
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As you pointed out, 10.4 is now approaching 7 years old...

You could always suggest the tactic of recommending VTK 5.8 to people
who really need to build for 10.4.

And go with 10.5+ for VTK 'master' and future releases.