[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[Aashish Chaudhary]

I know at least one person (Bill, cc'd) using  TCL wrapping but recently he
switched to Python (not completely though).  My personal vote is +1 to
remove TCL support.


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>wrote:

> +1 for dropping TCL support :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org [mailto:
> vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Marcus D. Hanwell
> Sent: 26 March 2012 17:50
> To: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
> Cc: VTK Developers
> Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl
>
> So, for now I have applied a mapping of numerals to Roman numerals, and
> that works well. The TCL objects have the 2 replaced by II, everything else
> remains as is. This is a possible option too, although I am not
> particularly tied to the name.
>
> None of these classes were ever wrapped in Tcl or Java as we failed to add
> the handwritten code to make them part of those wrapped imports.
> This is not automated, but it does beg the question of how many Tcl users
> are out there and if they are largely supporting legacy Tcl scripts and not
> looking at new API.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
> marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> > That was my other thought, although at this stage the 3D stuff is so
> > new and small it hardly seems worth it. It also looks ugly to me, but
> > I could learn to live with it. As a policy it looks like we must only
> > allow letters a-z to guarantee it will work everywhere (or do some
> > weird transform for Tcl).
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
> > <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> >> Good point.
> >> On the other want if we still want to maintain the difference, what
> >> about "ContextThreeD" and "ContextTwoD" ?
> >>
> >> Jc
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> >> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Tcl has been an adventure. It appears that Tcl modules are not
> >>> allowed to have numbers in them, and so Rendering/Context2D and
> >>> Views/Context2D will have to change. Perhaps their names can simply
> >>> be Context, and that would remove the oddness that the 2D context
> >>> modules have some 3D rendering code in there too.
> >>>
> >>> Marcus
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| Aashish Chaudhary
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