[Smtk-developers] Is RGG requried by SMTK's vtk extension?

[John Tourtellott]

Thanks, David. It sounds like we should have Haocheng make an update when
he gets back. For now, I'll hack around it for the SLAC build.


On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:00 PM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> > We recently pushed MR !1108 to remove some RGG dependencies and change
> the default SMTK__ENABLE_RGG_SESSION to "off", however I just learned that
> RGG is much more tightly coupled into to SMTK that I realized. In
> particular, the vtk extension file vtkAuxiliaryGeometryExtension.cxx uses
> RGG code, so that the vtk extension is dependent on the rgg extension. I
> have not looked into this in any detail, as I am trying to get a build
> ready for SLAC this afternoon, but I want to pose the question
> >       • Can re revise the vtk extension to not be dependent on rgg?
>
> I am shocked that this dependency crept in. Yes, it should definitely be
> removed. At least one way to remove it is to add another class like
> vtkAuxiliaryGeometryExtension that _only_ provides ".rgg" files. The way
> smtk::common::Extensions work is that if one extension cannot handle a
> file, the next one is tried.
>
>         David
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