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

[Karthik Krishnan]

Thanks.. Then Statistics/ and StatisticsV2/ it is, unless someone can come
up with better names

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karthik

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't see us dropping any directories that we have already
> distributed to our customer.
>
> Customers that have figured out how to use the current Statistics
> would be surprised after an upgrade to see that their code no longer
> compiles.
>
> Changing filenames places zero burden on our customers, only an
> inconvenience to us, the developers.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Karthik Krishnan
> <karthik.krishnan at kitware.com> 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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Karthik Krishnan
R&D Engineer,
Kitware Inc.
Ph: 518 881 4919
Fax: 518 371 4573
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