ITK/Deprecation Procedure

This page describes the procedure to be followed when deprecating code from ITK.

The overall procedure involves the following:

• Use itkLegacyMacros
• Leave the deprecated methods for one release
• Remove at the next release.

Example

KernelTransforms case

In the KernelTransforms we replaced the method

  Matrix & ComputeG();

with the method

  void ComputeG( Matrix & m );

Insertion of Legacy Macros

 /**
  * \deprecated in ITK 3.6, please use void ComputeG(vector,gmatrix) instead.
  */
 itkLegacyMacro( virtual const GMatrixType & ComputeG(const InputVectorType& landmarkVector) const );