[Ctk-developers] Coming changes in External project organization

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Sasha,

To clarify, when I wrote:

 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-build
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/src
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/tmp
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK

It means:

 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-build         # Build directory
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake         # Directory where CMake store
timestamps, source ...
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK               # Source directory



Or should we use structure like this one instead:

 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-build         # Build directory
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake        # Directory where CMake store timestamps,
source ...
 <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-src                    # Source directory


What do you think ?

I would prefer option 1) since I am more use to it ... where the source
directory match the project name.

Thanks
Jc

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Sascha Zelzer <s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de
> wrote:

>  Hi Jc,
>
> we use a similar structure for external projects in MITK, so +1 from me. I
> would only suggest a slight modification:
>
> Can we use
>
> <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-src
> <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-tmp
>
> instead of
>
>
> <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/src
> <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/tmp
>
> ?
>
> Thanks for taking care of this,
>
> Sascha
>
>
> On 04/11/2011 06:21 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Using CTK as an external project in more and more project, the path length
> could be an issue on windows platform.
> Indeed, the path length on windows is limited to 260 characters. [1]
>
> *What motivates this change:*
>
> Such problem could arise, if, for example, your project is build in folder
> like:
>
> "c:/Dashboards/Nightly/YourProject-Superbuild-Qt-PythonQt-With-Tcl-NoCLI-nightly"
>
>
> "YourProject" relying also on Superbuild and using CTK as an external
> project .. will fail to build for some obscure reason.
>
>
> *Current CTK organization:*
>
> Currently the project are organized as described below:
>
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Build/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Build/DCMTK
> ...
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Source/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Source/DCMTK
> ...
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Download/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Download/DCMTK
> ...
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Stamp/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CMakeExternals/Stamp/DCMTK
> ...
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CTK-build
>
>
> *Solution proposed:*
>
> With some minor changes, the structure would like:
>
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/CTK-build
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-build
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/src
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK-cmake/tmp
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/VTK
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/DCMTK-build
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/DCMTK-cmake/src
>  <CTK-SUPERBUILD>/DCMTK-cmake/tmp
>
> Pros:
>   - Doing so will decrease the average length of external project path
> associated with CTK.
>   - If needed, make the "cleaning" of external project easier "rm VTK*"
> instead of "cd" in each CMakeExternals sub folders ..
>
> *Action plan:*
>
> I plan to implement and test this change this coming week.
>
> That improvment shouldn't cause any issue, but If it happens to be a
> problem within your project and you require some time to figure out a fix or
> would like to contact me. Please, do it before the end of the week :)
>
> Next week, following your comments I will then integrate the change to CTK
> master.
>
> Thanks
> Jc
>
> [1]
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx#maxpath
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