[Paraview] Convenient copy of VTK within ParaView

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Mathieu,

While it's possible to enable such an advanced option, such a feature
is fraught with complications until we sync VTK and ParaView release.
Through conversations with folks here, we are indeed trying to achieve
that i.e. synchronize  VTK and ParaView releases.

VTK's cmake rules (and consequently ParaView's CMake rules) are being
overhauled for VTK 6.0/ ParaView 4.0. So this would be a good
opportunity to start supporting such a build-time option.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing on behalf of Debian Science, the umbrella organization
> behind the packaging of paraview for the debian system.
> There is a blocking issue with ParaView current packaging [1].
> Basically debian strives to deliver stable and supported software. To
> that effect, we are required to remove any 'convenient' copy of
> libraries as per debian policy [2].
> In order to address this issue in the best possible way, we would like
> to know what is the position of the paraview developers on this. We
> understand that ParaView and VTK have different release cycles and as
> such it is hard to synchronize those cycles.
> However we would be interested to know if paraview could be build
> using a system installed VTK. Would it be possible to have, say, an
> advanced option to build ParaView in a 'stable' VTK mode? This would
> require the build system of paraview to check for the VTK version
> before building paraview module. Would such patch be applied upstream
> ? Would paraview developers help us with this integration ?
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654839
> [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
>
> Thanks for your reading,
> --
> Mathieu
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