[Insight-users] VTK version for IJ testing?

[Zack Galbreath]

Hi all,

Sorry for the tardy reply.

I don't think it's a good idea for the Insight Journal tester to provide 
the option to link against CVS HEAD versions of ITK & VTK.  It would 
still maintain the Insight Journal's goal of reproducibility, but in a 
less intuitive way.  Reviewers may potentially have to build an 
arbitrary version of VTK based on the timestamp of the submission.  We'd 
also need to change the tester's behavior to postpone testing 
submissions that require CVS HEAD on days when the dashboard is broken.

That being said, I just checked, and we only have VTK 5.0 installed 
there currently.  I'll work on upgrading this to VTK 5.4 soon, but if I 
read the thread correctly,  I don't think that will solve your problem 
in this case.  What submission prompted this inquery?  I tried searching 
for "Doria" in the Insight Journal, but you seem to be quite the 
prolific author :).

If the only issue is execution speed, I can increase the test timeout 
parameter to give your submission more time to finish.  If your code 
needs to vary depending on the version of VTK you're building against, 
you could use pre-processor directives to conditionally compile 
different blocks of code based on the value of VTK_MINOR_VERSION.  It's 
ugly, I know, but it would be more "out of the box" compatible with 
different versions of VTK.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to make your experience using 
the Insight Journal more pleasant.

-Zack