[vtk-developers] vtkNew compile error

[Bill Lorensen]

It worked great in my experiments. I recall I needed to add another
method to it for some isolated use case. I can't recall right now the
situation and my repository is not available to me until April1. If
needed that additional method can be added later. It did not affect
the current API.

Bill

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds good to me. We can address those stream issues at a later date
>> if need be.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> >> I think vtkNew would be a good spot to use std::ostream.
>> >
>> > I started looking into that and it opens a small can of worms.
>> > In vtkIOStream.h we do several things:
>> >
>> > (1) Support the VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB option.
>> > Now that VS6 is gone do we need this option anymore?
>> >
>> > (2) Reduces the MSVC warning level for the stream headers.
>> > We do not want to do this everyplace we include <ostream>.
>> >
>> > (3) Provide streaming operators for "long long" if the native
>> > compiler does not provide them.  Do all our compilers provide
>> > this now?
>> >
>> > While the above issues are worth discussion for VTK as a whole,
>> > I'd rather not deal with them for introduction of vtkNew<>.
>> > Let's just use #include "vtkIOStream.h" for now.
>> >
>
> What was the outcome on vtkNew? I think that this would be a great addition
> before we branch. After so much discussion it would also be great to
> actually add the API we seem to have all settled on.
> Thoughts? Objections? As far as I can tell everyone involved likes vtkNew.
> Marcus