[vtk-developers] VTK containers are gone; long live VTK containers

[Ken Martin]

Hey Prabhu,

To give you a rough timeline for VTK42 it looks like this...

1) CMake 1.6 goes beta (done)
2) Start fixing install issues in VTK, Apple issues etc (ongoing)
3) Deal with containers (onging)
4) Release CMake 1.6 (soon, maybe a week?)
5) update CMakeList files for VTK to use macros and versions (this is
mostly done but since it requires CMake 1.6 it isn't checked in yet.
6) initial testing (two weeks maybe)
7) branch VTK 4.2 (three weeks)
8) announce beta and wait for a couple weeks
9) release (I'm guessing five weeks from now)
10) patch (we will have patches to VTK42 to fix bugs etc)

After step 7 people can start checking in changes to the tree again.

Thanks
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vtk-developers-admin at public.kitware.com [mailto:vtk-developers-
> admin at public.kitware.com] On Behalf Of Prabhu Ramachandran
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:18 PM
> To: vtk-developers at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [vtk-developers] VTK containers are gone; long live VTK
> containers
> 
> >>>>> "KM" == Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> writes:
> 
>     KM> This was an ongoing decision that had to be made before the
>     KM> release. If VTK 4.2 included Andy's containers then we would
>     KM> have to support them for all future versions of VTK. The
>     KM> driver was not so much addition of STL as do we remove Andy's
>     KM> containers prior to release.
> 
> Yes, but it is a last minute change nonetheless and a pretty big
> change at that.  This deal of using STL has been going on for a long
> time.  I myself argued for STL way back in Dec. 2001 (perhaps even
> earlier).  However, moving to STL suddenly without *any* prior
> discussion on the mailing list before a release is certainly
> surprising.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>     KM> You are talking about adding a new class which is a different
>     KM> situation and hopefully not a double standard. You are
>     KM> handling the gl2ps issue correctly and doing a good job of
>     KM> communicating on it.
> 
> Ok.  Thanks.  I'll hold off till VTK 4.2 is released then.
> 
> Also, I think we'd all appreciate if you can give us a rough idea of
> what the release plan is like.  A rough time schedule will do.  Then
> we'd know what is coming up and I would know when I can commit the new
> class.
> 
> cheers,
> prabhu
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