[Paraview] paraview 3.0.1 build on MacOS X is brittle
Jack Howarth
howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu
Tue Jun 19 11:42:24 EDT 2007
Mike,
I'm not saying that you have to take the MacOS X build
back to X11. Just make the build process flexible enough
that if Carbon QT isn't being used, the MacOS X build
defaults back to a linux-like X11 build. It shouldn't
be rocket science to do that.
Jack
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Mike Jackson wrote:
> I still need a _good_ reason for building against X11. Just because it
> _can_ be done does not mean it _should_ be done. OS X users _expect_ a
> proper OS X application bundle to use. We (OS X Users) have been
> screaming at the ParaView folks for years to do this so we did not
> have to rely on X11 to run ParaView. Now that we have it you want to
> take us back to X11? I don't think so. I would rather see Kitware's
> resources put to other tasks than to back port to X11.
>
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