[vtk-developers] VTK Versions

[David Gobbi]

Hi Ken,

This is a very good idea.  At our labs we have tons of useful
'student project' apps that we don't have time to maintain,
and having an easy way of choosing an older versions of VTK
that are known to work with a certain app is a huge plus.

 - David


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Ken Martin wrote:

> Hello Folk,
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> I'm thinking of adding version numbers to VTK libraries and executables.
> Specifically vtkCommon42, vtkCommonTCL42, vtk42, etc. There may also be
> at some point vtkCommon42.so.0 to handle patches to the UNIX libs. Also
> we are working on an option for vtkCommon42d (or _d etc) for debug libs.
> But my immediate question is are there any opinions against adding a
> version to the libs and executables? If so please let me know.
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> Thanks
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> Ken
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> Ken Martin, PhD
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