[vtk-developers] Maybe ABSTRACT isn't needed

[David Gobbi]

It seems that ABSTRACT is also needed by the VTK instantiator.


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
<jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've seen a couple merges in the past week where the dashboard has
>> failed either because people forgot to mark a class as ABSTRACT, or
>> marked a class as ABSTRACT by mistake.
>>
>> As far as I understand, the ABSTRACT property is only used only by the
>> wrappers, and all it indicates is that a class has no New() method.
>> The wrappers can easily be modified so that they check for the New()
>> method themselves, making it unnecessary to mark classes as ABSTRACT
>> in cmake.
>>
>> Or is there some other use of the ABSTRACT property that I am forgetting?
>>
>>  - David
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