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

[Bill Lorensen]

Sean,

Yes, it is cleaning up cruft. Also, it is confusing to modern c++
developers, wondering what is the difference between vtkstd:: and
std::.

Bill

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:49:12 -0500, Marcus D. Hanwell said:
>
>>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.
>
> "vtkstd::" appears 105 times in our code.  Personally, I'm happy to change them all when we upgrade VTK, but it might be helpful, as Bill argues, to have some compatibility route.
>
> Was the motivation for this change just cleaning up old cruft?
>
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