[Insight-developers] Integrating the New Statistics framework into ITK

[Bill Lorensen]

I don't think we can rename them with cvs.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> How is directory renaming going to be implemented with CVS? Are we going to
> loose the version history of the old statistics?
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Karthik Krishnan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> My thought was that we would compile both.
>
> We cannot compile both unless we change the filenames of the classes in the
> refactored framework, to ones different from the ones in the older
> framework.
>
>>
>> ITK distributed classes
>> would be converted over to the StatisticsV2 (as long as the API
>> remains the same).
>>
>> If we go with Option A, I think we should keep the current name for
>> the old Statistics and call the new Statistics StatisticsV2 or some
>> thing similar. We could still use the CMAKE selection mechanism.
>
> That sounds great.
>
> Would yout think that to a new user, it would be nice if he saw a directory
> name was self-explanatorily named deprecated ? Also at some point, if we
> moved to ITK-X.0 and broke compatibility, we could drop the old directory,
> but we'd be stuck with a funky name StatisticsV2.
>
> Thanks
> --
> karthik
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