[vtk-developers] Request: turn off BTX/ETX in some dashboad builds

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if some brave volunteers could turn on the
> VTK_IGNORE_BTX option in their dashboard builds.  This will cause the
> wrappers to ignore the BTX/ETX markers in the header files and parse
> everything.  The idea is that the wrappers can figure out for
> themselves what they can wrap, without needing hints in the header
> files.  Eventually it would be nice to eliminate BTX/ETX from all VTK
> code.
>
> A caveat, though, is not to do this if you are running ParaView or
> other apps that wrap their own classes.  I don't export the
> vtkWrapHierarchy stuff from VTK yet, so external wrapping is still
> dependent on the BTX/ETX markers in the externally-wrapped classes.
>
> I will see about adding an experimental VTK dashboard on my 64 bit Linux
system with most VTK options turned on. It would be great to see how well
this does, I could also do it for Titan and ParaView when the time is right.

Thanks,

Marcus
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