[vtk-developers] clean-up VTK_LEGACY code

[Dan Lipsa]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can you provide a list of the code to be removed?


Here is the merge request.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/235



> Perhaps a notice to
> the users and developers lists on how to test for the removed code?
>

Users who update VTK regularly are warned using the VTK_LEGACY_REPLACED_BODY
mechanism if they call a deprecated function. If they want, users can
define VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE to
remove all deprecated code from VTK. Some code is only removed
if VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE is defined,
so it may be harder to know if one uses it.

So, the best way to test for deprecated code seems to be to
define VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE.

Users moving from old versions of VTK where the code was not deprecated to
a new version where the
code has been removed will get a compiler error for functions that have
changed name or have been removed.
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