[vtk-developers] VTK Modularization

[Bill Lorensen]

Marcus,

It is good to see use cases for the modularization. Unfortunately, the
ITK modularization effort does not have use cases.

It is important to see the cost benefit analysis of this effort. We
should look at large and small VTK customers and see what the
trade-offs might be. VTK may benefit more since it has a broader
audience than ITK and it does not use templates. ITK is mainly
template-based and it is not clear to me what modularization brings to
the ITK application developer.

Bill


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In February we will begin the process of modularizing VTK, and
> creating finer grained, more focused kits. This proposal is discussed
> on the following wiki page,
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Modularization_Proposal
>
> The number of kits will increase in VTK, allowing developers to link
> to a much finer grained portion of VTK. Some of the work we have been
> doing with Titan, ITK, and in conjunction with the Boost community, to
> create more dynamic build systems will be employed here. Our existing
> build system will be updated to use some of the new features in CMake,
> allowing the easy addition of kits, and building only a subset of the
> VTK.
>
> Over the coming weeks as we start to work on the modularization of VTK
> we will post to this list with more details, such as proposed mappings
> of existing classes into new kits. Initially all modularization work
> will take place in a separate branch outside of master. Once it is
> ready to be pushed we will sync any source level changes from VTK
> master, and announce the date the modularized VTK will be merged into
> master.
>
> I would like to get those interested in the modularization thinking
> about the classes they know best, and where they might move. Once we
> have a list of proposed moves I will post it and seek feedback. If we
> miss any classes that you feel should be moved that would be a good
> time to raise those issues too.
>
> Marcus
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> R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
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