[vtkusers] RFC: Compiler support, removing hacks for old compilers

[Marco Sambin]

No problem with the "new" minimums for me.

Regards,

Marco
Il 16/mar/2015 19:10 "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> ha scritto:

> Hi all,
>
> VTK currently contains hacks for various old compilers.  I'd like to prune
> some of this and increase the minimum compiler requirements.
>
> I'd be interested to know from the community what are the oldest compilers
> you care about?  Anyone out there using a compiler older than 5 years or so?
>
> Concretely, I thought I'd start by removing support for:
>  - gcc 3.x
>  - MSVC++ 8.0 (aka Visual Studio 2005)
>
> The minimums would therefore become:
>  - gcc 4.0 - Released: 2005-04-20
>  - MSVC++ 9.0 (aka Visual Studio 2008) - Released: 2007-11-19
>
> The motivation being:
>  - reduce cruft in the codebase
>  - allow use of newer language features (C++11 eventually)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
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