FWIW, I'm happy to +1 this too.
> +1 on dropping GCC 2.x support.
>
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
>
> > Yes, I really mean 2.x !
> >
> > This code is from FLTK 1.3, src/Fl_win32.cxx, line 1554 ff.:
> >
> > // Drag-n-drop requires GCC 3.x or a non-GNU compiler...
> > #if !defined(__GNUC__) || __GNUC__ >= 3
> > // Register all windows for potential drag'n'drop operations
> > static char oleInitialized = 0;
> > if (!oleInitialized) { OleInitialize(0L); oleInitialized=1; }
> > ...
> >
> >
> > As it stands, this would only exclude gcc < 3.x from compiling
> > the following code. However, Fl_Native_File_Chooser::showdir()
> > calls OleInitialize() unconditionally. Instead of "fixing" this,
> > I believe that we could require at least gcc 3.x (other compilers
> > are not affected here).
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Does anybody think that we still need to support gcc 2.x (or even
> > older)? If not, we could remove that __GNUC__ conditional instead
> > of adding more at other places to make it consistent.
> >
> > There are about 15 more hits that test __GNUC__ >= 3 in the
> > FLTK 1.3 code. These could probably all be removed as well
> > (I didn't check yet, but that should be obvious).
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Release dates <http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html>
> >
> > GCC 2.95.3 March 16, 2001
> > GCC 3.0 June 18, 2001
> > GCC 3.1 May 15, 2002
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I vote for dropping gcc 2.x support and removing the #if's to
> > simplify the code for FLTK 1.3 and later.
> >
> > Please give your comments and votes!
> >
> > Albrecht
> >
> > P.S. This is only one step to consolidate the code WRT the
> > OleInitialize/OleUninitialize problem discussed elsewhere in
> > fltk.development.
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