[vtk-developers] New wiki pages on VTK 6 build system migration and module development

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:05 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wrapping was next on my list, but I had to break off Thursday and just
>>> got back in today. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. I
>>> will see if I can get that working but it may take a little work. The
>>> hierarchy files are not installed as far as I know - they could be and
>>> then it shouldn't be too hard to ensure they are loaded.
>>>
>>> It is great to have a few users of this to help with testing, I will
>>> of course update the wiki page with any new details once the hierarchy
>>> stuff is finished.
>>
>> With the hierarchy file installation, one question in my mind is,
>> where should they be installed?  A few potential locations are:
>>
>> lib/
>> lib/hierarchy/vtk-6.0/
>> lib/cmake/vtk-6.0/Modules/
>> share/vtk-6.0/
>>
> As they are platform independent data files I was thinking
> share/vtk-6.0/hierarchy/ would be a good place for them to go. Does
> this seem reasonable to you and others? I probably won't get to
> looking at this for a day or so, the config file could have a
> VTK_HIERARCHY_DIR or similar to point to the location of these files
> in the install or build tree for external users.

They're not completely platform-independent, one of the things
included in the hierarchy files is a listing of all typedefs defined
in any of the headers, and in the header files a few of those typedefs
are #ifdef'd for specific platforms.  In total I'd imagine there might
be four or five such typedefs, probably all in Common/Core, but just
sayin', the hierarchy files are only about 99.9% platform-independent.

 - David