[MINC-development] ABS and SIGN

[Andrew Janke]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steve ROBBINS wrote:

> I'm going to cast a vote for the more conservative option: Leave existing
> headers as-is, and create a new, cleaner header.  Or, alternatively, new
> code that wants a cleaner namespace should #define MINC_USE_NAMESPACE
> (or similar), before including any MINC or volume_io header.
>
> Perhaps we could introduce a symbol to clean up the namespace (e.g. the
> MINC_USE_NAMESPACE symbol suggested above) and document the old
> stuff as "deprecated".  Also: encourage client programmers to move
> away from interfaces documented as deprecated.

Aka the GTK 1.2 => 2.0 approach.

ie: we could just wait untill 2.0 ;)  And thus save us the trouble of re-writing
code again for 2.0.


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