[vtk-developers] Proposal: Supporting Arrays With Arbitrary Memory Layouts

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Sean,

That is what I meant :/. The main reason for that was the question that how
many users are really using Mapped arrays? My suspicion after discussing
with a few folks was few and far between. While it will be nearly
impossible support both class hierarchies at the same time for
vtkDataArray, maybe it's possible to support the 2 things that people using
mapped arrays did: write a vtkMappedDataArray subclass and
use vtkDataArrayIteratorMacro.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:51 PM Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:07:32 +0000, Utkarsh Ayachit said:
>
> >If everything goes smoothly, the plan is to deprecate Mapped Arrays and
> >supporting classes in VTK 6.3 and replace it with the proposed Generic
> >Arrays in VTK 7.0.
>
> Am I reading that wrong?  You can't mark things deprecated without
> providing a replacement.  People's apps will get deprecation warnings with
> 6.3 that they can't fix because the replacement API doesn't exist in 6.3.
>
> Cheers,
>
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