[Insight-developers] Itkzlib stuck at version 1.1.4?

[Bill Lorensen]

Also, the names will have to be mangled.

Bill


On 8/4/07, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Yes, ITK and VTK "share" many of these libraries.
>
> However, they are not linked in any way through CVS.
>
> The process of updating the libraries will have to
> be done independently on each toolkit (ITK/VTK).
>
> I would suggest to start with and easy chunk and just
> update the zlib library in ITK. If that goes well,
> then make the same updates in VTK.
>
> Then move to jpeg... and so on.
>
> Each one of those updates will take approximately one
> week. Committing the changes themselves will be just a
> matter of hours, but stabilizing the Dashboard in all
> the platforms after the commits does typically requires
> a week of discontinuous work.
>
> You want to run Experimental builds in at least Windows,
> Linux and Mac, before committing the changes to the CVS
> repository.
>
> It is also strongly recommended to commit changes early
> in the morning, so you will see the results of the
> continuous builds during the day, and will have a chance
> to fix them before the modifications affect the entire
> Nightly build of the next day.
>
>
>   Please let us know if you encounter any major problems,
>
>
>     Thanks
>
>
>        Luis
>
>
>
> -----------------
> Sean McBride wrote:
> > On 7/19/07 11:36 AM, Luis Ibanez said:
> >
> >
> >>Both sounds like a firm vote for updating the zlib library in ITK.
> >>
> >>   Any volunteers ?
> >
> >
> > Luis,
> >
> > Maybe I can volunteer after all.  I took a look at 1.1.4 and VTK's CVS,
> > and it seems there are almost no local changes.  And the file structure
> > of 1.2.3 looks basically the same.  I think it would be straightforward
> > to update.
> >
> > However, I also notice that zlib is part of ITK, VTK, CMake, and maybe
> > other projects like ParaView that I don't use.  I assume we'd want to
> > change them all, to stay in sync.  How does that work?  It seems each
> > project has a separate CVS repository.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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