[Insight-users] ITK 4.2+ and VXL 1.17

[Mario Ceresa]

Thanks Matt, for your rapid response! Would you mind pointing me to the patch?

Best!

Mario

On 26 January 2013 03:20, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Mario,
>
> Thank you for maintaining the packages.
>
> We worked with the VXL community to introduce backwards compatibility
> patches so ITK will continue to work with as many versions of VXL as
> possible. So,  it would be easiest to apply that patch in your package
> instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> On Jan 25, 2013 8:32 PM, "Mario Ceresa" <mrceresa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody!
>> I'm the maintainer of ITK, VXL and dependent software on Fedora.
>>
>> After upgrading VXL to version 1.17 I found myself endlessly patching
>> all vnl_math_ calls with vnl_math::
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mrceresa/ITK/commit/75f89b8782b42bc35e494b60a4a0a221fd08245f
>>
>> https://github.com/mrceresa/ITK/commit/d67c35c548f47ac64fbaba1b2c16259fc8f2d46e
>>
>> I'd rather not to maintain all those separate changes, do you think it
>> is possible/reasonable to upgrade bundled vxl to 1.17?
>>
>> My plan would be:
>> * Upgrade the internal reduced version of vxl
>> * Fix all build errors (I already have all the patches)
>> * Fix all failing tests, if any (I'm unsure because I still have to
>> patch all the build errors of the tests)
>> * Send a pull request with all the changes
>>
>> Maybe someone could comment on it?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Mario
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