[Paraview] ParaView and QT

[Dominik Szczerba]

Hi,

Is bundling VTK not falling into the same category?

-- Dominik

Berk Geveci wrote:
> I agree with Michael that it is not a good idea to bundle Qt with
> ParaView. I was not happy with bundling Tcl/Tk despite the fact that
> they are pretty small compared to Qt. I think we will try to keep up
> with Qt better in the future. We may officially support a specific
> version but we will try new version as they come out and make sure
> that they compile at least.
> 
> -berk
> 
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or, as you're using Debian, you can use pinning to prevent apt from updating
> Qt. See e.g. [1] or ask google.
> 
> I would hate a bundled Qt because it is a large beast and if everybody
> starts doing it we end up in Windows-Land where every program comes with the
> full set of libraries it depends on, cluttering the system until it's so
> broken only a clean install can solve the problems...
> 
> HTH
> 
> Michael
> 
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
> 
> 
> On 1Jun, 2008, at 2:42, Berk Geveci wrote:
> 
>>>> It is not easy to keep up with Trolltech guys, they keep busy :-) I
>>>> recommend downloading your own version of Qt, building it and
>>>> installing it somewhere out of the system path (I use /opt/qt-4.X.X).
>>>> We will start supporting Qt 4.4 after we release 3.4.
>>>> Also, it sounds like the problem you are running into is with CMake
>>>> parsing the output of qmake. Did you test with cvs CMake?
>>>>
>>>> -berk
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Andrew Maclean
>>>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> This is really frustrating as my debian machines all upgraded to QT
>>>>> 4.4 a few weeks ago so the ParaView builds are now broken. Even
>>>>> editing the CMakeLists.txt files does not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is it that everytime Trolltech changes QT it seems to require a
>>>>> major amount of work?
>>>>>
>>>>> If it is not possible to keep up with the changes coming through from
>>>>> TrollTech, is it possible to do what you used to do with the older
>>>>> version of ParaView and have a special version of QT that is bundled
>>>>> with it?
>>>>>
>>>>> You say ParaView only works with a particular version of QT so why not
>>>>> bundle it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry if I sound cranky - I am getting frustrated!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Biomedical Simulation Group
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi