[vtk-developers] VTK on Mac OS X: Carbon vs Cocoa, change of default

[David Cole]

Unless somebody responds raising an objection in the very near future (like
today or tomorrow), I'd say this is a reasonable change to make in CVS HEAD
of VTK.

Sean, you may also want to send mail to the ParaView and ITK developers
lists just to notify them. ParaView is arguably VTK's "most visible" client
and it may need to set VTK_USE_CARBON explicitly in its CMakeLists.txt file
after your change.

Does Qt integration with VTK on the Mac require VTK_USE_CARBON...? Or can
you use Qt with either vtkRenderWindow...?

Unless somebody objects, go for it, Sean.

Thanks,
David


On 10/19/07, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> VTK has the VTK_USE_CARBON and VTK_USE_COCOA choices.  The default is
> Carbon.  Having both is great.  However, I'd like to propose that the
> default be changed to Cocoa.  Why?  Because it is well known that in Mac
> OS X 10.5 Cocoa will be available to 64 bit processes while Carbon will
> not.  In other words, Carbon has no long term future :(, and IMNSHO
> should be discouraged as a default.
>
> See:
> <http://www.carbondev.com/site/?page=64-bit+Carbon>
>
> Any thoughts/objections?
>
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