[vtk-developers] Change semantic of VTK_DISABLE_TK_INIT

[Brad King]

Brad King wrote:
> Andy Cedilnik wrote:
>> I am thinking about changing the semantic of VTK_DISABLE_TK_INIT from
>> whatever it is it does now to be do not build with TK. That would mean
>> if this option is on, then TK is not initialized, vtkTkRenderWidget and
>> so on are not build, and nothing is linked to TK.
>>
>> Any problem with that?
>>
> 
> We are already planning to create a new setting for this:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2005-August/003641.html
> 
> It will be called VTK_USE_PYTHON_TK which is much more explicit about 
> its purpose.

Oops, the setting Andy is talking about has nothing to do with Python, 
but it plays the equivalent role for Tcl.  Perhaps instead we should 
have an option for use of Tk by each language with a consistent naming 
convention:

VTK_USE_TK_IN_TCL
VTK_USE_TK_IN_PYTHON

-Brad