[vtk-developers] Removing the vtkstd headers from VTK master - using STL directly

[David Gobbi]

Hi Marcus,

I'll take a look when I get home... port 81 is blocked by the firewall at work.

 - David


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> They are part of the public API.
>
> I noticed that Slicer4 uses them, but only in two file. Likewise the
> WikiExamples, but only in a couple of examples. In each case I'll
> remove the vtkstd.
>
> Your "remove legacy" approach with complete removal in VTK6 sounds good to me.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I thought I would need to do that, but not generate them at all
>> if remove legacy is on, and then perhaps remove them in for the 6.0
>> release. I can make that change, please let me know if you see any
>> other problems.
>>
>> It isn't clear if they are part of our public API, but as we installed
>> them I guess they were.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think you should keep the old headers around for backward
>>> compatibility. You could stick warning pragmas in the headers.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>>> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just pushed a topic to reviewtest that removes vtkstd from VTK. For
>>>> testing purposes I removed the generation of vtkstd altogether, but
>>>> that could be modified.
>>>>
>>>> http://reviewtest.source.kitware.com:81/#/t/31/
>>>>
>>>> This seems to compile for me, and was done largely using a Python
>>>> script and a little regex. Are there objections to me merging this
>>>> topic in? Should the vtkstd headers be generated for legacy purposes,
>>>> I know at least ParaView (which I can fix) is using vtkstd in some
>>>> places.
>>>>
>>>> I could also use some pointers from David Gobbi, as I suspect what I
>>>> did to the wrapper code was not quite right.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Marcus
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