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

[Berk Geveci]

For now, this shouldn't be a problem. However, if we aggressively pursue
C++11 support, it will be a problem. See the chart in here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx

I read that as we would have to require VS 2013 for this. My preferred
timeline for this would be to require partial C++ 11 support in the
compilers we support by early 2017. I also hope that we would have first
class support for Python 3 way before then.

Those that still want python 2.7 support in 2017 would have to depend on
VTK 6 or 7 (assuming we have VTK 8).

Does this make sense?

Best,
-berk



On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Casey Goodlett <
> casey.goodlett at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK official python binaries are still built with VS 2008 which is not
>> that different (one iteration)
>
>
> As Casey mentioned, since python 2.7.x official compiler is still VS 2008
> (VS9) and this version of python is still maintained, let's make sure to
> keep its support.
>
> Thanks
> Jc
>
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