[vtk-developers] Removing include files

Will Schroeder will.schroeder at kitware.com
Tue Nov 26 15:12:34 EST 2002


Hi Jim-

I really don't like it either, but it is the right thing to do. If we don't 
do this the compile times go up and some compilers can't handle the amount 
of including going on. C'est la vie.

Will

At 02:15 PM 11/26/2002 -0500, Miller, James V (Research) wrote:
>I understand the general desire to remove unnecessary include files from 
>the VTK headers.  But I just had
>to add include lines my applications for vtkImageData.h and vtkPolyData.h 
>because they have been removed
>from some VTK headers.
>
>My program was pretty simple.  It just wired up filters and mappers, 
>etc.  I never explicitly instantiated
>a vtkPolyData or a vtkImageData nor do I have any methods that take 
>pointers to these classes
>(and hence make API calls to a PolyData or ImageData).
>
>It seems a little extreme that I need I now need to include vtkImageData.h 
>and vtkPolyData.h when
>I am just using standard pipeline processing.
>
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