[vtk-developers] vtkstd - do we still need it?

[Bill Lorensen]

I believe that we no longer need vtkstd. The commit hooks to prevent
its use were removed some time ago if I recall.

Bill

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> This was raised previously, and no consensus seemed to be formed. I would
> like to ask the question again, is there any need for us to continue using
> vtkstd as a namespace, and including vtkstd/vector etc? As far as I am
> aware, any requirement to keep this was lost when we deprecated ancient
> compilers that did not have a full STL implementation.
> If we in fact do not require it, can we relax any commit hooks that are
> still in place, begin using the STL headers directly and phase out the
> vtkstd namespace in favor of using std directly? It would be good to aim to
> have it phased out by VTK 6.0, along with some of the other legacy and
> compatibility code I think is already on its way out.
> Thanks,
> Marcus
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