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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Well the new pipeline (as the only pipeline) has been
checked in for a little over a week now and it seems to be working OK. I would
still suggest holding off on moving to the new VTK CVS (or at least hold off on
converting your filters to subclass directly off of the new pipeline) if you
want to minimize your pain although you certainly can if you want to. We are
still cleaning up some aspects of the new pipeline and adjusting it some as we
push it to handle new tasks such as AMR data sets and field requests. We are
also converting over the remaining filters to subclass off of the new pipeline.
As we do this we may bump into issues that we can clean up. If you find a need
to write code that works with multiple versions of VTK and for some reason you
cannot get it to work with both the old a new pipelines then you can make use
of: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#ifdef VTK_USE_EXECUTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> New pipeline stuff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#else<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Old pipeline stuff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#endif<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>VTK 5.0 will still be a couple months off so that the new
pipeline has some time to mature etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ken<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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