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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Dave D.

We're not deprecating in 6.3 anymore. Following, Shawn's comment, we'll
deprecate in 7.0 when we will have the replacement architecture in place as
well.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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
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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
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>>>
>>>
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