[vtk-developers] About the vtkDataArray::InsertTuple() method

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:42:40 -0400, Will Schroeder said:

>Polishing the API and code is a good thing, and we've seen a lot of organic
>growth and improvement over the 22+ years VTK has been in existence. Done
>thoughtfully with minimal disruption I am fine with it.

I agree with the gist of your post.

But it seems to me, in this concrete case, that renaming an API qualifies as "minimal disruption".  The old name just needs to be tagged deprecated, it's behaviour doesn't need to change.  Old code will still work.

Cheers,

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