[vtk-developers] Wrapping/Tools

[David E DeMarle]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Then I'll just push what I have.  I've removed VTK_GENERATE_WRAPTOOLS,
>>> but right now there isn't any way to turn on hierarchy wrapping
>>> without turning on one of the wrapper languages.  I suspect the
>>> client/server wrapping does not use the hierarchy files yet, so I
>>> don't think it matters at this point.
>>
>> Correct, my first attempt at bringing in and using the hierarchy
>> failed miserably, so PVCS only depends on the wraptools library.
>>
>> I would like to try again though and use the hierarchy in PVCS as part
>> of the effort to get rid of the remaining need for btx/etx flags
>> littering VTK. Is it possible to move that into the wraptools module
>> as well?
>
> Not sure what you mean.  Bring PVCS into wraptools?

nope, I just want to make sure we can use all of whatever wraptools
provides for tcl/java/python for pv-clientserver (or conceivably
anything else that comes along later)

> The vtkWrapHierarchy tool is already in WrapperTools but

good.

> CMake/vtkWrapping.cmake only applies it to the files if one
> of the wrapping languages is turned on.  I'd like to change

bad.

For the moment it doesn't affect pvcs since we still don't use it.

> vtkWrapping.cmake to build the hierarchy files whenever the
> WrapperTools module is on, but I'm not sure how.

me neither.

>
>  - David