[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Will Schroeder
<will.schroeder at kitware.com>wrote:

> 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?


Ahh..I completely forgot about books (which tells me that its being long
time since I read these books), TCL tests and examples are helpful but not
sure how much they are helping others. I can volunteer  myself if needed,
but you have a very good point.

>
> 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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