[vtk-developers] Started on VTK 4 compatibility removal

[Bill Lorensen]

Gabe Hart did the work along with Luis.

Bill

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>wrote:

> Good idea. Who should I talk to about this? Luis?
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > ITK now requires a short xml description of API changes. These will
> > eventually be collected into a migration guide. There is info here:
> >
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/What_Developers_Must_Do_To_Contribute_to_the_Users_Migration_Guide
> > The migration policy and guide was created by Kitware as part of their
> ITKv4
> > contract.
> >
> > I suggest that we do something similar in VTK. It is a small burden on
> the
> > developer that will make it easier on our customers. In ITK, we try to
> add a
> > migration document when me make the API change. This should save a lot of
> > effort later.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 5 May 2011 10:45:14 -0400, Berk Geveci said:
> >>
> >> >We (ARB) discussed the possibility of getting rid of SetInput() and
> >> >creating a new function called SetInputData() to flag such issues at
> >> >compile time rather than runtime.
> >>
> >> 2¢: Flagging at runtime, say with an assert(), sounds fine to me.
> >>
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