[vtkusers] RFC: removing Mac OS X 10.6 support in VTK

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi,

For what it is worth, Slicer MacOSX build machine is still running  10.6.8,
we will soon transition to machine with 10.11

In the mean time, we reverted "Increase VTK OS X minimum check from 10.6.0
to 10.6.8" on the Slicer/VTK fork.

See https://github.com/Slicer/VTK/commits/slicer-v7.1.0-2016-07-06-b824d94

Jc


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:53 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anybody care about Mac OS X 10.6 support anymore?
>>
>> There are no longer any dashboards testing it automatically, and there
>> are some burdensome workarounds in the codebase to support it.
>>
>> Anyone object to its removal?, as per this patch:
>> <https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1798>
>>
>> (Apple no longer even releases security updates for 10.6, so using it is
>> a bad idea in general.)
>>
>
> Yeah, Apple dropped support for it about 5 years ago... we upgraded our
> last 10.6 machine around a year ago, and have been using a deployment
> target of 10.7 since then.
>
> I mentioned it in the MR, but I'll mention it again here: a reason why
> people might not want to upgrade a Mac past 10.6 is that PowerPC apps will
> not run on later versions of OS X.  It was awesome to be able to run old
> PowerPC apps on an Intel Mac, I had a nice little viewer that I had to
> retire when I upgraded.
>
>  - David
>
>
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