Developer Meetings/20140128
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To discuss
- New SlicerWizard to create extension (Matthew Woehlke). See mwoehlke-kitware/Slicer@3566-refactor-wizard
- VTK6 integration status update (Yuzheng Zhou). See integration status
- Why?
- VTK6 doesn't provide backwards compatibility for lots of API with VTK 4 and 5.
- In VTK6, data and execution “models” are seperated. So vtkDataObject doesn't contain the pipeline information anymore.
- What are needed to do:
- Done: Build system migration (conditional build (VTK 5 or VTK 6) in Slicer and CTK)
- Done: Removal of VTK 4 backwards compatibility superclasses (vtkProcessObject, vtkSource and all of their subclasses)
- In progress(90% done): Removal of the pipeline meta-data API from vtkDataObject (E.g. AllocateScalars(), SetWholeExtent(), etc.)
- In progress(90% done): Removal of Data Objects’ Dependency on the Pipeline (RequestData(), ExecuteData(), SetInput(), etc.)
- Testing (TODO)
- Why?