[CMake] BOOL type

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Dec 18 09:41:10 EST 2007


Mike Jackson wrote:

> 
> I might kindly disagree. There are many instances where backward 
> compatibility was broken in order to clean things up and move on.
> Vtk 4.x to 5.x was one of those. My code broke with the 5.x release BUT 
> it was for the better. And more importantly I was given plenty of notice 
> that it was coming. The jump from 2.4 to 2.6 seems like a good time to 
> make the break and clean things up. As long as there is a comprehensive 
> list of breakage I don't think people will have a real problem with it.
> 

Sure, but when you moved from VTK 4.x to 5.x you got compile time 
errors.  If we change this, something will most likely silently fail.

-Bill


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