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

[Ken Martin]

>>> I'm honestly curious: why are you using a 10 year old IDE?

So much that ^

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-----Original Message-----
From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of
Sean McBride
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 9:43 AM
To: Casey Goodlett; Berk Geveci
Cc: VTK Developers
Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Removing support for VS 8 and GCC
< 4.1

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:32:17 -0400, Casey Goodlett said:

>If I understand this last change correctly, I would start to get
>non-obvious compile errors on MSVC_VER < 1400 e.g. in vtkTypedArray or
>one of the other places a workaround has been dropped.

Indeed.  The idea of my patch is to remove old crud and workarounds.

I'm honestly curious: why are you using a 10 year old IDE?

>My preference is then for a checked list of unsupported compilers where
>we know changes have been made to drop workarounds.

I could add that by means of:

#if MSVC_VER < xxx
  #error ...

Cheers,

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