[vtk-developers] The VTK Software Process.

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
Fri Jul 26 11:17:18 EDT 2013


+1


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:49:26 -0400, David E DeMarle said:
>
> >We've cobbled together a unified description of VTK's software process
> from
> >the various descriptions of it on the web, mailing list and in the User's
> >Guide.
> >
> >Please take a look at it when you've got some time, and feel free to make
> >suggestions for improvement (either to the doc or to the process) in the
> >form of comments.
>
> One thing I noticed: the word "assert" does not appear in that document.
>
> VTK uses assert() here and there, but not consistently.  It would be nice
> to have guidelines going forward.
>
> Personally, I am a big fan of assert(), when used to guard against
> impossibilities and/or programmer error, as described for example here:
> <
> http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-05-03-proper-use-of-asserts.html
> >
>
> Dunno what others think...  But the document should probably address it
> one way or another...
>
> Cheers,
>
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