[vtk-developers] "contrib" and "local" in new tree

[David Gobbi]

Hi Christopher,

I created a "Local" kit by adding the following text to my
LocalUserOptions.cmake file:

------------begin LocalUserOptions.cmake
OPTION (VTK_USE_LOCAL "Build the local directory classes")

IF (VTK_USE_LOCAL)
  INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${VTK_SOURCE_DIR}/Local)
  LINK_DIRECTORIES(${VTK_BINARY_DIR}/Local)
  SUBDIRS(Local)
  SUBDIR_DEPENDS(Local Hybrid)
  IF (VTK_WRAP_TCL)
    SUBDIR_DEPENDS(Wrapping/Tcl Local)
  ENDIF (VTK_WRAP_TCL)
ENDIF (VTK_USE_LOCAL)
-------------end LocalUserOptions.cmake

If the file "LocalUserOptions.cmake" exists in either the source
directory or the build directory, it will automatically be loaded
by CMakeLists.txt.

Apart from that, I also made a Local/CMakeLists.txt modelled
after Hybrid/CMakeLists.txt but with different classes and
dependencies.

I would not be opposed to a skeleton "Local" directory being added
to the VTK cvs.  It would serve as a template for people to follow.

 - David



On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) wrote:

> Ok, I've looked through many of the old messages in the list, and maybe I missed it, but I can't seem
> to find any discussion of what happened to "contrib" and "local" from the old tree. I think some of
> the contrib classes moved into hybrid, but local, which provided a convenient mechanism for
> incorporating your own classes into vtk without co-mingleing them with classes under CVS control,
> appears to have vanished. I've gotten a couple of alternative ideas from people (create a separate
> project in a separate workspace, or modify the top level vtk cmake stuff to include a "local"
> project) but I wanted to know if there's a "preferred" way to do things when it comes to stuff like
> this. Feedback from people who themselves were using "local" and now have moved to an alternate
> method would be particularly appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> Chris
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