[vtk-developers] VTK modularization update

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Good morning,

Thanks for the clarification. Having a kwsys on a git repo would indeed be
helpful for easier re-use via SuperBuild.

Jc

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 4/3/2012 10:13 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin wrote:
>>
>>>   - If not yet done, project like kwsys could also be factored out, it
>>> would
>>> be very helpful
>>>
>>
>> The kwsys code will not be factored out for modularization, it could
>> be revisited once the modular tree has been committed.
>>
>
> KWSys is intentionally designed to be duplicated in each project that
> uses it.  That's why the KWSYS_NAMESPACE is configured by each project.
> In ITK it is "itksys".  In VTK it is "vtksys".  They can't share a
> single external build because the names are all different.
>
> The main restriction in KWSys is that it cannot be committed through
> Git to any project right now because it's still in CVS.  I've been
> working to remedy that but don't want the changes to interfere with
> VTK modularization or the upcoming CMake 2.8.8 release.
>
> -Brad
>



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