[vtk-developers] Use of autorelease in Cocoa classes

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

> hmmm, well, in any case, I doubt your app is GC.  In VTK5 there is "VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS" which was set to build as both GC and MRR.  Now that string is gone in VTK master.  No doubt there is some fancy git thing that can tell us when/where/who/why it was removed?

I checked, and it was removed in the massive modularization
commit (0c1471f1).  I didn't use any special git tools, I just followed
a hunch.  No messages on the dev list say why it was removed,
but the CMakeLists.txt was largely re-written in that commit.

 - David