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

[David E DeMarle]

We could also start putting a "tested against …" statement in the release
notes for posterity.


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:51 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> That took longer than expected Bill. :)
>
> Thanks for bringing up the counter argument Bill. Casey's pain
> demonstrates your point.
>
> Despite that my vote is for getting rid of old compilers sooner rather
> than later. Old compilers are a drag on both innovation and maintenance.
>
> Whatever we do I think the we need to clearly communicate what compilers
> we really are trying to support. This discussion and earlier ones on the
> mailing list help. The cmake macros people have discussed will help too. In
> practice the dashboards submitters define the set of compilers that people
> can expect to "just work". That set should be introspected and published
> automatically and expanded.
>
>
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