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

[Peter Karasev]

+1 for the aggressive point of view. C++11 makes life so much easier it's
practically criminal to make VTK users suffer due to legacy support.

       Peter Karasev
On Jun 9, 2015 11:30 AM, "David Cole via vtk-developers" <
vtk-developers at vtk.org> wrote:

> Definitely +1.
>
> Agree with what Utkarsh said, plus: people writing code should be
> using modern tools for all sorts of good reasons: performance,
> security, the tools themselves are just better...
>
> I would go so far as to say it's reasonable that the dev/trunk/master
> branch of a project should only support the two most recent stable
> compiler releases on any given platform. Even less for
> dev/trunk/master if there is compelling reason to use a feature only
> available in the most recent stable release.
>
>
> Cheers for marching forward!
> David C.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> > +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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