ITK/Backward Compatibility Open Discussion

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The topic of backward compatibility has generated animated discussions among users and developers.

We gather here multiple points of view from some of the influential users and developers.

The content of this page is not intended to be conclusive on any of the proposed topics. It simple intends to gather elements of discussion that will serve as food-for-thought.

Main Discussion Topics

Discussion Topics

  • Deprecation of classes / method. When to deprecate, and how to deprecate.
  • Drawing the line where fixing a bug will result in backward compatibility breaks.
  • Cathedral/Bazar: How much burden to put on new contributions to the toolkit.
    • Is the Insight Journal + Code Review directory a process that is too burdensome.


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