[Insight-users] ITK 4.2+ and VXL 1.17

[Mario Ceresa]

Hello everybody!
I'm the maintainer of ITK, VXL and dependent software on Fedora.

After upgrading VXL to version 1.17 I found myself endlessly patching
all vnl_math_ calls with vnl_math::

https://github.com/mrceresa/ITK/commit/75f89b8782b42bc35e494b60a4a0a221fd08245f
https://github.com/mrceresa/ITK/commit/d67c35c548f47ac64fbaba1b2c16259fc8f2d46e

I'd rather not to maintain all those separate changes, do you think it
is possible/reasonable to upgrade bundled vxl to 1.17?

My plan would be:
* Upgrade the internal reduced version of vxl
* Fix all build errors (I already have all the patches)
* Fix all failing tests, if any (I'm unsure because I still have to
patch all the build errors of the tests)
* Send a pull request with all the changes

Maybe someone could comment on it?

Thanks and regards,

Mario