[Paraview-developers] Deprecating old-panels from ParaView

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Sounds good. I  am okay with leaving it in for another release, but
I'd like to get the community start using the newer panels before the
old code becomes unwieldy to maintain.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:49 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Utkarsh,
>
> Please, post the final decision when it's made, if you decide to remove
> those classes I'lll have to rewrite a few classes in the SQ Plugin.
>
> Burlen
>
>
> On 08/14/2013 10:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> I meant removing, more than deprecating. The rough list of classes
>> would include:
>>
>> * pqProxyPanel and subclasses (including pqObjectPanel,
>> pqAutoGeneratedObjectPanel)
>>
>> (http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-doc/classpqObjectPanel.html)
>> * pqSMAdaptor
>>
>> If plugins used old panels, they'd fail to build since they would more
>> likely than not depend on one of these removed classes. I fear that as
>> time progresses, these classes would decay since they are not actively
>> used in ParaView and plugins would start failing in unexpected ways.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:25 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>>
>>> deprecating or removing? is there a list of classes on the chopping
>>> block?
>>> About the plugins included in PV would these be disabled if they use the
>>> old
>>> widgets for custom panel?
>>>
>>> Burlen
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/14/2013 06:42 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to get a feel for what people think about deprecating the
>>>> support for old style panels from the next release of ParaView. The
>>>> new panels have been around for 3 releases now (since Dec 2012). We
>>>> are working on several cleanups to domains and other server manager
>>>> level components to better integrate with Python and it would be nice
>>>> to get rid of some of these obsolete components (which are quite a few
>>>> classes that are now primarily unused).
>>>>
>>>> The next release is being targeted for Oct/Nov time frame.
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh
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