[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Removing support for VS 8 and GCC < 4.1

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

+1. People using those compiler can stick with previous versions of VTK.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:37 AM Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Sean graciously created a branch that removes support for Visual Studio 8
> and GCC < 4.1:
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/38
>
> GCC 4.1 was released in 2006 and VS 9 was released in 2008 (actually late
> 2007). I believe that this is very reasonable. We removed support for VS 7
> and GCC < 3 in 2013 and doing this regularly makes it easier to maintain
> VTK.
>
> Are there any major use cases for keeping these compilers? Unless I hear a
> good argument against merging this change in the next few weeks, I will go
> ahead and approve it.
>
> Moving forward, we will likely be more aggressive removing support for
> older compilers. The VTK developer community really wants to leverage new
> C++ features (C++ 11) and newer library/compiler features (e.g. TBB, OpenMP
> 3 and 4) etc. We want to get there relatively fast and this will require
> dropping old compilers more quickly than before.
>
> Thanks,
> -berk
>
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