[vtk-developers] Meeting minutes

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Friday 18 December 2009 10:33:49 Sean McBride wrote:
> On 12/17/09 11:15 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell said:
> >> It might involve an alligment of the planets and a VTK release or two
> >> first
> >>
> >> :-p
> >>
> >> That said, I am responsible for all VTK/ParaView dashboards and I am
> >> most definitely in favor of making use of this very cool feature! It
> >> would definitely reduce the amount of email I get ;-)
> >
> >From what Bill said only the dashboard hosts would need CMake 2.8. So we
> >could hopefully add subproject support, CMake 2.6.3 would continue to
> > build VTK without issue but 2.8.0 would be required to submit builds to
> > the dashboards. That should be a reasonable requirement as far as I can
> > see.
> 
> Except then nothing is testing VTK's ability to be built with older
> CMakes.  What if VTK's CMake script gets 2.8-only syntax added to it
> accidentally, or can CMake 2.8 warn if that happens?  (Just being
> devil's advocate, personally, I'm happy with requiring 2.8 for everyone.)
> 
I have been talk with Bill about this issue, and it is a concern. We certainly 
need to ensure that our minimum supported CMake version is tested properly. 
Right now this is a proposal under discussion, I won't make any changes 
without considering the wider ramifications.

I think the subproject support would really improve the usefulness of the VTK 
dashboards for developers, and most of the hard work has already been done by 
the CMake/CDash developers.

Marcus
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Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937