[vtk-developers] VTK_MAJOR_VERSION is no longer #define'ed

[David Cole]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> David, I disagree.
>
> I think these conditionals in the examples serve two purposes:
>
> 1) They show the vtk development community the impact on users of API change
> 2) They will help frustrated customers convert their own code.
>

3) They show the people stuck on VTK 5 (for whatever reason) how to
compile the examples with their VTK...


> Bill
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Reading code with conditionals like the above is not a great way
>>> to learn VTK 5 or VTK 6.
>>
>> I definitely agree with this - the conditionals are surely just adding
>> clutter for new users to sort through. However, I've never had a
>> better solution support both versions (we wouldn't want to duplicate
>> the entire wiki into Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx5 and Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx6
>> or anything like that) so I didn't see a way around it. My vote would
>> be to only demonstrate the latest version (now v6) in the examples.
>>
>> David
>
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