[vtk-developers] VTK Examples broken outside of tree

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 11:30:52 EDT 2010


vtkLocal is different I guess. That one does not build. Let me see if
I can figure out what is wrong.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, I just tried Modelling outside the VTK trees and it works fine.
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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