[vtk-developers] VTK with STLport

Ken Martin ken.martin at kitware.com
Thu Dec 2 09:07:32 EST 2004


I looked into STLPort about 2 or 3 years ago.  I recall that back then the
installation procedure for STL port on Windows was a mess. You had to hack
up your Visual Studio Installation to get it working. The other issue to
consider is how well will STLPort intermix with other versions of STL.  Just
because VTK uses STLPort doesn't mean that the rest of someone's application
is using STLPort. So for many people there would be two copies of STL class
definitions which sounds like trouble. I have nothing against STLPort I'm
just playing devil's advocate.

Ken



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org [mailto:vtk-developers-
> bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Moreland, Kenneth
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: vtk-developers at vtk.org
> Subject: [vtk-developers] VTK with STLport
> 
> Has anyone considered distributing STLport (http://www.stlport.org) with
> VTK for its use of STL templates?  Besides being a common code base that
> works on many platforms, I understand that the STLport implementation is
> faster than many native implementations and supports classes that are
> not uniformly supported by all native implementations yet (such as hash
> tables).  STLport's license also appears to be compatible with
> distribution within VTK.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Ken
> 
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