[vtk-developers] WRAP_EXCLUDE etc. in VTK 6

[David Gobbi]

Yes, but once it is working for Tcl/Java it should be straightforward
to extend it to client/server wrapping.  The solution will require use
of the hierarchy files, though, so that might be an issue with
client/server in the short term.

 - David


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Chris Harris <chris.harris at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> We would also need to make ParaView client/server wrapping work
> without WRAP_EXCLUDE if we are going to go down that route.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that the Java wrappers weren't building recently... and the
>> reason why, was that one of the Charts classes wasn't marked
>> WRAP_EXCLUDE.  I pushed a gerrit patch fo fix the issue.
>>
>> What was surprising to me, though, was that the TCL wrappers weren't
>> affected at all.  The TCL wrappers seem to be sufficiently robust that
>> they no longer require any hints from the CMake scripts about which
>> classes are wrappable and which ones aren't... vtkWrapTcl is smart
>> enough to decide that for itself.
>>
>> This makes me wonder if vtkWrapJava can be made to be as robust as
>> vtkWrapTcl and vtkWrapPython.  This would allow us to eliminate
>> WRAP_EXCLUDE from the CMake files entirely.
>>
>>  - David