[vtk-developers] Maybe ABSTRACT isn't needed

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

+1

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've seen a couple merges in the past week where the dashboard has
> failed either because people forgot to mark a class as ABSTRACT, or
> marked a class as ABSTRACT by mistake.
>
> As far as I understand, the ABSTRACT property is only used only by the
> wrappers, and all it indicates is that a class has no New() method.
> The wrappers can easily be modified so that they check for the New()
> method themselves, making it unnecessary to mark classes as ABSTRACT
> in cmake.
>
> Or is there some other use of the ABSTRACT property that I am forgetting?
>
>  - David
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