[vtkusers] Different behavior of vtkXMLPUnstructuredGridWriter in VTK 7.1

[Andy Bauer]

Backwards compatibility is something I should work harder on in general so
having someone check on me for this isn't a bad thing.

I just hit a backwards compatibility issue with a separate library today
and it's certainly annoying and a good way to anger users.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds OK to me.
>
> Just checking...
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:35 PM, John Peterson <jwpeterson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> I think that this was a bug in the way that VTK was being used but
> because
> >> of the way that the XMLPUnstructuredGridWriter was implemented, it
> ended up
> >> not being manifested in VTK pre 7.1. If they tried to do most other
> parallel
> >> operations (e.g. streamlines, etc.) they would not get the desired
> behavior.
> >
> >
> > I will second this.  It looks like we have been "getting away with" using
> > the XMLPUnstructuredGridWriter in the wrong way for quite a while, and we
> > need to update our code to use it the right way.
> >
> > --
> > John
>
>
>
> --
> Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com
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