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

[David E DeMarle]

Utkarsh A, David L,

Please put Ben and I on the MR as reviewers for the deprecation commit so
we know when to start the release branch.

thanks

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>
>>
>>
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