[Insight-developers] Test framework

[Bill Lorensen]

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Hans,

I think your view is very developer-oriented, not customer-oriented.
That's OK, I respect your opinion.

As an academic your priorities may be different than those of a
company that must support products on a large number of platforms. I
understand that some day, new algorithms that can only be implemented
with particular c++ features will require an upgrade.

I would be willing to look at the new code you mentioned that can only
be implemented with partial specialization. In the past, the use of
such code is not necessarily a requirement to implement an algorithm.
However, I do admit, that in the case of the new gdcm, that partial
specialization is so prevalent that partial specialization cannot be
removed. Personally, I think that is unfortunate since reading dicom
files does not necessarily require partial specialization. Rather,
this is a convenience for the developer.

Bill