[Insight-developers] itk::OrientImageFilter should be deprecated?!?

[Williams, Norman K]

OrientImageFilter was something developed at Iowa, and as our approach to
image processing has matured, and as ITK's support of physical-space
processing has become more consistent, should it be deprecated or removed?

It's sort of OK as a concise way to physically re-arrange voxels in index
space, but its major crime is this: It forces images from whatever
orientation is specified in their Dir Cosines on disk, to the nearest
orientation parallel to the global axes. In numeric terms, the resulting
dir cosines will be only 1s and 0s.  This is a serious loss of important
image information.

Ideas? Is it used anywhere besides 'dusty deck' Iowa applications?