[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[Will Schroeder]

I have no philosophical issue with removing TCL. Please note however that
somebody is going to have to do a lot of work to rewrite two VTK books
(textbook and user's guide) not to mention a hell of a lot of examples.
Aashish are you volunteering?

W

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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