[Insight-users] VTK version for IJ testing?

[Bill Lorensen]

Zack,

Is vtk 5.4 fully backward compatible with 5.0? If not, some IJ code may break.

Bill

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Zack Galbreath
<zack.galbreath at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
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