Originally I copied this over from SceneGraph template classes, where it
was used to prevent the compiler from needlessly instantiating a
template that was already available elsewhere. But this is a different
case, the extern template is not preventing any instatiation of
anything, no code is inline, so it apparently should not have been there
at all, instead of being disabled for ḾinGW GCC and clang-cl, and then
subsequently discovering it also breaks MinGW Clang.
Since I'm not testing with MinGW Clang on the CI (only with MinGW GCC),
this went unnoticed for a while -- sorry.
Consistently with changes done to Utility::Path, this enforces proper
error handling on user side. Originally I didn't want to do this and
instead wanted to have a special Array instance devoted for an error
state, but that still would allow the error state be errorneously
treated as a successful but empty array.
It's more useful if the Error class is directly referenced than saying
just "error output" -- so people can grab it, redirect it, etc. Also
drop the useless "does what it is expected to do on success" sentences
that add no value whatsoever.
As the CI only uses Linux to test non-deprecated builds, this was
unfortunately not caught -- there std::string is forward-declared in
<iosfwd>, which is included by Debug.h, which is transitively included
by Pointer. On MSVC however a full <string> has to be included always.
Co-authored-by: EhWhoAmI <zyunlam@gmail.com>
I wanted to avoid including extra stuff with the Manager.hpp split, but
this would make it even worse than having Array and String included
unconditionally. Fortunately it's enough to simply not even have the
declaration.
Interestingly enough, there were no docs whatsoever for image and scene
conversion, and neither it was mentioned what all scene data can be
imported. Sigh.
This is already done for the AbstractImporter and the new
AbstractShaderConverter, as there's a common use case of checking just
the filename for input/output path or file type detection and then
delegating to the common implementation working directly on data.
It should be input first, output second, like with all other APIs. I
remember I was trying something else here, but that didn't really make
sense in the end. Also took that opportunity to get rid of one
std::string.
The original signature is a deprecated alias to the new one and will be
removed in a future release.
There will be Flag::FlipY for images at some point, enabled by default
for compatibility with existing GL code, and so it makes sense to start
discouraging setFlags() as early as possible to avoid people resetting
the default by accident.
Also update the imageconverter, sceneconverter and shaderconverter utils
to use these instead of setFlags().
Vladimír Vondruš