[vtk-developers] VTK Examples broken outside of tree

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 11:21:11 EDT 2010


I remember the problems occurred when I tried to add tests.

I also thought I had tested the independent building, but it appears I didn't

If a revert will work, fine. Go for it.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 8/23/2010 11:07 AM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> I don't agree that it should be reverted. I have to check my notes to
>> remember the complications I had when adding new examples. First. let
>> me fix vtkLocal. Then we can have more discussions.
>
> My point is that vtkLocal is currently broken only because examples
> are not tested on the dashboard as outside projects anymore.  It took
> a total of zero commits past your change for an example to be broken
> in a way that the previous approach was intended to prevent.  That is
> why we must revert the change.
>
> If you have trouble adding an example then we should look at how
> to make it easier in the context of the old approach.  Building any
> examples in the tree is not an acceptable solution for the reasons
> I've already described.
>
> -Brad
>



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