[Insight-developers] removing GetOptimizer method

[Ziv Yaniv]

Hello all,

I would like to remove the GetOptimizer method from the following 
optimizers: itkAmoebaOptimizer, itkConjugateGradientOptimizer, 
itkLBFGSOptimizer, itkLevenbergMarquardtOptimizer . All of these wrap 
vnl optimizers.

The GetOptimizer method is problematic as it exposes the underlying vnl 
class . Such a method should never have made it into ITK as it is a back 
door, removing any sanity checks ITK may have put in place when wrapping 
the vnl optimizer.

Please let me know if there is a reason not to do this. If no one has a 
reason then I will do this next week.

                     thanks
                         Ziv

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